The correct answer is: <em>Florida's electoral votes decided the close election.</em>
In the presidential elections of the United States of the year 2000 they contended the candidate for the Democratic Party Al Gore and the candidate for the Republican Party George W. Bush.
Al Gore added more popular votes (50,999,897) than George W. Bush (50,456,002) but this did not mean winning the presidency because George W. Bush nevertheless obtained a greater number of electoral votes (271) against (266) .
There was a great controversy regarding the results of the State of Florida, whose contribution of electoral votes was decisive (it contributed 25 Voters) and whose election was very close. George W. Bush won the 25 Electors by Florida having obtained 2,912,790 against 2,912,253 of his opponent. This was key to finally obtaining the presidency of the United States.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that the historian is using "research skills", since he or she must find out the proper order of events. </span></span>
