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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (73685)	11/14/2000 8:25:01 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I could be wrong, but wasn't ABC the first network to call Florida for Gore? They're continuing to try and affect the outcome of this election. The eight Colorado members of the Electoral College are suddenly finding themselves under the lights, not to mention under pressure. One elector, Mary Hergert, found questions from ABC News more like veiled intimidation than journalistic inquiry. So she checked her caller ID to make sure the call really was from ABC News. Hergert said the caller said he was "Ed from ABC News" and asked if she would ever consider voting for Al Gore, then said it is unconstitutional for her to be bound by state law to follow Colorado voters' preference for Bush. "It was bothersome," said Hergert, who served as Bush's Weld County campaign chairman. And in reality, the Constitution says nothing on the subject. A second Colorado elector, Rob Dieter, also mentioned a call from ABC News when the Denver Rocky Mountain News asked if anyone had tried to influence his vote. ABC News spokeswoman Su-Lin Nichols apologized for any confusion caused when a group of staffers called electors across the country with a series of identical questions in preparation of a possible story on the Electoral College vote. rockymountainnews.com