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If Bush had beaten Gore in the 2000 election, that would only prove that looks don't have everything to do with how people vote, not that it doesn't have anything to do with it. But in fact, Al Gore won the popular election in 2000. He had absolutely more votes. (Also, but less relevant to the immediate point, he won the Florida election, once the votes were counted according to Florida's own rules.) So the if-looks-mattered-Bush-wouldn't-have-beaten-Gore tack doesn't really work. Bush didn't beat Gore, except in mau-mauing the Supreme Court.