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

To: lawdog who wrote (96249)	11/30/2000 6:07:28 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769670

Aaaaah! The Blob Theory.

To: lawdog who wrote (96249)	11/30/2000 6:20:03 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769670

Let's revote Florida today. It will landslide for Bush. This just in: Floridians are weary of the election struggle By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Web-posted: 5:50 p.m. Nov. 30, 2000 A substantial majority of Floridians has grown weary of the ongoing presidential election struggle in their state, say they accept George W. Bush as the winner in Florida and think Al Gore should concede, a new state poll finds. The Florida election, which remains unsettled more than three weeks after Election Day, is almost certain to be decisive in this very close presidential race. The Mason-Dixon poll done for various broadcasters and newspapers in Florida suggests that about six in 10 accept Republican Bush as the winner of the Florida election, and almost that many, 57 percent, think Democrat Gore should concede. That impatience with the recount is slightly higher than in national polls, where up to half say it's not yet time for anyone to concede. "The consistency in the numbers suggests that at least 55 percent are siding with Bush, they see this as inevitable and just want to move on," said Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon. "People here see Gore wanting to recount votes in those three counties in southeast Florida and it reinforces some of the long-standing differences between southeast Florida and the rest of the state." Southeast Florida, with a heavy concentration of retirees from the Northeast and immigrants from the Caribbean, is far more Democratic than the rest of the state. Blacks by a 9-1 margin did not accept Bush as the official winner and two-thirds of Florida Democrats didn't accept his victory. In heavily Republican parts of the state like north and southwest Florida, seven of 10 accepted Bush as the winner. In southeast Florida, just over half accepted Bush as the winner, while four in 10 did not. "I think they should stop. Bush is the winner," said Therese Yarger, a Tampa homemaker. "I'm very tired of the whole thing and it's not going to be over December 12th either. Watching the trucks on I-75 (carrying the southeast Florida ballots), it's like watching O.J. Simpson." She voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader "not because I like Nader's views, but I didn't feel like either one of the main candidates had anything to offer." Eight in 10 Gore voters thought the Democrat should continue to fight, while almost all Bush voters said Gore should concede. Brian Willner, a 35-year-old Miami Democrat who voted for Gore, said: "They should take as much time as needed to do the appropriate recount." "I absolutely do not accept Bush as a winner," he said as he waited for cash at an ATM outside a grocery store. About 55 percent said they thought the election process was fair, the results were accurate and Bush really won. The telephone poll of 801 registered voters was taken Monday and Tuesday by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research and has an error margin of 3.5 percentage points. A majority, 54 percent, thought the election and legal process should end now, rather than run its course. "It really demonstrates that the closer you are to this battle, the sicker you are of it," said Susan MacManus, a political scientist at the University of South Florida. "We've been ground zero for more than a year, and we're ready to move off the country's radar screen."