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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	11/20/2000 9:47:37 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) of 769670

TV'S EARLY CALL FOR GORE FRIED BUSH IN FLA. Monday,November 20,2000 By DEBORAH ORIN Turnout suppressed? The TV networks may have cost George W. Bush thousands of votes in Florida's conservative Panhandle region by wrongly calling the state early for Al Gore, a new poll by a GOP pollster suggests. "If the networks had not made a bad early call for Gore, we probably would have seen thousands more votes and they would have gone 2-1 for Bush," said Republican pollster John McLaughlin. "And if that had happened we wouldn't be going through this whole recount mess," added McLaughlin, who worked for CBS Radio on election night as a Republican analyst. Polls in the Panhandle close an hour later than in the rest of Florida because the area is on Central Time. But the networks began calling Florida for Gore - wrongly - about 10 minutes before local polls closed. McLaughlin polled 600 Florida Panhandle voters last week and found that about 13 percent said they didn't vote because they heard the early call for Gore and an equal number said they knew people who didn't vote for the same reason. The Panhandle voted 2-1 for Bush.Deborah Orin nypost.com

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