President George W Bush won Florida in 2000 by 537 votes.

537 votes, setting aside the US Supreme Court and the Palm Beach County Butterfly

ballots and everything else, 537 votes which means any

number of factors could have persuaded just enough voters to go one way or another

and determine the presidency.

So there's an argument.

My plan, Jim, is different.

That Darrell Hammond's brutal impression of Vice President Al Gore

on Saturday Night Live after the 2000 debates could have swayed the outcome.

Sure, many people remember Will Farrell's Bush.

Stradigory.

But Hammond's Gore was a stiff unlikable bore, and it was so good, it just about

overtook the actual debate in many voters' minds.

You may think you know the location of the lockbox. And maybe you do. Or maybe that's a

decoy or a dummy lockbox.

By exaggerating mannerisms and riffing on real quotes to turn them into jokes and bits,

impressionists can often get closer to the true essence of a politician than the politician themselves. In recent decades

comedians like Tina Faye have become merged in many voters' minds with the

politicians they roasted, like then Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.

And I can see Russia from my house.

Beyond SNL, Kian Piel's anger translator bit

helped define President Barack Obama's aloof coolness.

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