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

To: jlallen who wrote (148254)	5/24/2001 9:37:35 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Chapter 2 talks about the abysmal job TV media and the VNS did. These people should have their licenses revoked. TV announced at least a dozen times that the polls in Florida had closed when the polls in the Central Time Zone were still open, and they gave Florida to Gore at 6:49 Central Time. The numbers vary, but even Bob Beckel's company said it probably cost Bush 10,000 votes. All the analysts agreed that Bush needed to win Florida, Michigan, or Pennsylvania to win the election. So when Gore was perceived to have won the "trifecta," the talking heads depressed turnout in Western states with their dire pronouncements of Bush crashing and burning. Bush would have won the popular vote by a comfortable margin if Western states hadn't been discouraged so early on. Florida wasn't the only state they showed bias in. These numbers are telling: Gore won Illinois by 12 points and CNN crowned him the winner in one minute. Bush won Georgia by 12 points and CNN waited 33 minutes. Gore won New Jersey by 15 points and CNN announced it in one minute. Bush won Alabama by 15 points and CNN waited 26 minutes. Gore won Delaware by 13 points and CNN waited three minutes. Bush won North Carolina by 13 points and CNN waited 34 minutes. Gore won Minnesota by 2 points and CNN waited 37 minutes. Bush won Tennessee by 3 and CNN waited an hour and 16 minutes. Also, Michigan and Ohio were important battleground states. Both were won by 4 percentage points. The networks waited an hour and 45 minutes after the polls had closed in Ohio to declare Bush the winner. Yet they raced to call Michigan for Gore the instant the first polls there closed, even though voters in the Central Time Zone had another hour to cast ballots.