It turns out we didn’t have President Gore in 2000 by only 269 votes:
https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html
In a country of 300 million people, that’s certainly a squeaker. It also makes it the Presidential vote with the smallest total number of popular vote differences between winner and loser in history.
What if we’d had President Gore? Well, I predict that 9/11 would have still happened, we’d never have invaded Iraq, but we’d still be suffering through the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Possibly exacerbated because the capital-gains tax would have remained at 20-25% rather than being reduced to 15%, resulting in more pressure to perform for hedge fund managers, real estate loan officers, and insurance salesmen.