In 2000, Gore actually won the popular vote by about 500,000, but the Supreme Court’s controversial role in the Florida recounts had a big impact on the outcome of the election. Mack points out that the Supreme Court might have been biased since as president, George H.W. Bush had nominated two Supreme Court justices and G.H.W.’s buddy Ronald Reagan had nominated 4 more, making 6 of the 9 justices G.H.W.’s “friends”.

Bush’s cousin John Prescott Ellis doesn’t really own Fox, but he was a consultant for Fox News during the 2000 election. He was responsible for predicting who would win each state and was suspiciously the first to announce that Bush had won Florida.

If you didn’t know, Dubya has a brother named Jeb who’s governor of Florida and might have “helped” with that 2000 election just a little bit. Also, he’s considering running for president in 2016.

The George W. Bush vs. Al Gore election was one of the most controversial ever. But Macklemore implies that even people who legitimately voted for Bush in 2000 couldn’t have predicted how “evil” he turned out to be. This makes the third line of the hook sort of a double entendre , since “a president that y'all didn’t vote fo'” could refer to Gore winning the popular vote in the 2000 election or to Bush voters not meaning to vote for the “evil” president that Bush actually became.

Referring to the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which said that homosexuals serving in the army must be in the closet