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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (320)	11/2/2000 4:58:11 PM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

Survey Of The Nation's Newspaper Editors and Publishers Gives Bush Comfortable Win With 301 Electoral Votes! George W. Bush is heading for a surprisingly comfortable win in Tuesday's presidential election, according to a new E&P/TIPP survey of the nation's newspaper editors and publishers, completed Tuesday. The editors and publishers named the candidate they believe is winning in their home states - and these results give Bush 301 electoral votes with Al Gore gaining 237. At the same time, the survey revealed that the nation's newspapers have endorsed Bush over Gore by a better than 2-1 margin. The exclusive Editor & Publisher/TIPP poll was weighted to reflect the overall national percentage of small, medium and large daily papers, with nearly 200 editors and publishers taking part. TIPP, the polling partner of Editor & Publisher, is a unit of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence based in Oradell, N.J. Key swing states that Bush will carry, according to the Editor & Publisher/TIPP poll, include Florida, Pennsylvania, and Oregon - and Gore's home state of Tennessee. Gore will hold California. Asked to predict who would win the election nationally, if it were held today, the editors and publishers felt even more certain of a Bush win - with an astonishing 55% naming Bush and just 14% predicting Gore (the rest were not sure). The Editor & Publisher/TIPP poll also asked who the editors and publishers plan to vote for themselves next week. In another surprise, those willing to reveal their vote named Bush by a 2-1 margin. Publishers will vote for Bush at a 3-1 ratio, with editors favoring the Texas Governor by a narrow margin. Even those who plan to vote for Gore name Bush as the likely winner of the election. Asked whether they felt that newspapers have provided biased coverage of the presidential race this year, 25% said yes. Nearly 4 out of 5 who said that newspapers favored one candidate named Al Gore as the beneficiary. The vast majority of this group, however, are Bush backers. Nevertheless, more than 60% of the editors and publishers rated overall newspaper coverage of the campaign as 'good' or 'excellent.' The margin of error for this survey was 7.5%. tipponline.com