This story from the Seattle Times tells the story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002170042_webgregoire03.html
Newly elected governor Christine Gregoire has received at least one death threat and now has round-the-clock security.
According to the article,
"[Gregoire] said she said blamed "the level of discussion on some of these talk radio shows" for whipping up people."
I hate to generalize, but this is the attitude of the people that we're up against. If Gore had won in 2000 by a slim margin in Florida in contested circumstances, there would very likely have been a right-wing insurrection on the streets of DC.
Don't just take my word for it. That's what a senior person in the Virginia Republican party told me in the spring of 2001, a few months after the election.