He got 50.01% of the vote.

In an alternate universe perhaps, but not on this planet, according to
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm, which lists the following:
Candidate(Party Label) Popular Vote Total % of Popular Vote
Al Gore (Democrat) 50,999,897 48.38
G. W. Bush (Republican) 50,456,002 47.87

The Electoral college result gave Dubya 50.4655493482309% of the EC votes, so you're 0 for 2 in the matter of factual accuracy.