Massachusetts is one of the most reliable blue states in the nation: no Republican has won the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984. The 2000 presidential election featured DemocraticUnited States Vice PresidentAl Gore versus RepublicanTexas GovernorGeorge W. Bush. Despite Bush's tight victory nationwide, Gore handily won Massachusetts, with a 27% margin of victory against George W. Bush who did not actively campaign there. Gore didn't campaign in Massachusetts as well although his wife Tipper and the wife of his running mate Joe Lieberman, Hadassah, held a rally in Lieberman's hometown of Gardner.[1] Gore won every county and congressional district. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has kept up its intense level of the sizable Democratic margins since 1996.
With 6.42% of the popular vote, Massachusetts proved to be Ralph Nader's third best state in the 2000 election after Alaska and neighboring Vermont. Nader received 36.2% of the vote in the town of Wendell.