Bush came back in South Carolina amid a divisive and bitter campaign that left McCain denouncing leaders of the party's religious conservative wing as "agents of intolerance, " and Bush went on to win the presidency.
There are pictures of the Lib Dem leader - now the Deputy Prime Minister - Nick Clegg standing beside his party's posters denouncing any such increase.
Indeed, on the same day Mr Gore was denouncing oil and drug companies in Chicago, the Democratic Party in Washington was issuing its draft platform, or manifesto.