BONUS: The 2000 Presidential Election

There have been some questions about It Happened One Year's freeform, under-researched trial episodes - well, fear not, as this last Bonus Episode before Season Two begins stays mostly on subject and features actual concrete opinions! Recorded in February of 2021 (which is handy to know, given references in the discussion), Sarah & Joe go full Marvel What If...? on the world in their recollections and breakdown of the nail-biter 2000 Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. What would've happened had Gore won? Do all the early '00s wars still happen? Does the Patriot Act exist? Who could've been elected in 2004, and 2008, and 2012, for that matter? Also, what about the photo-finish 1960 Election? Do the '60s as we know them actually take place in the '70s, if Nixon won in '60? Lots of speculation and conjecture abound as IHOY gears up for the new season!