Can anyone point me to a database I could access for free or
inexpensively to get results from the 2000 Presidential election on a
county by county basis?  I'd also be willing to manually recreate my
own database from a web display if I must.

Hi there,

I have found a site that has compiled the results, and they are available for free.

Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies - School of Public
Affairs - American University
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/spa/ccps/index.html

The data appears within the Federal Elections Project and can be
accessed in two ways:

Interactive Data
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/spa/ccps/fepstates.html

Text Data
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/spa/ccps/feptext.html



You might also be interested in this map of the results at county level:
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/pe2000USA2.gif


Search strategy
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I went to the appropriate Google Directory category, and followed links...
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Government/Elections/Presidential/2000/?tc=1


Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga