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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RON Brown was beaming as he bounced into the CNN Washington bureau (where I work part time). And rightly so. It was midafternoon on Election Day, and exit polls showed that Bill Clinton was going to win big. But before going on-air, Brown sobered up. "I'd better not seem too happy," he said. "The polls are still open." Brown soon appeared on TV screens around the world expressing cautious optimism to an interviewer who knew as well as Brown did that the result was a foregone conclusion...
States as diverse as New Hampshire and California went Democratic Tuesday for the first time since 1964 -- not because two young Southerners wowed voters there, but because both states had plunged from prosperity during the Bush years. In the national exit poll conducted by Voter Research & Surveys, a consortium of TV networks, 43% of voters named the economy as the paramount issue -- twice the percentage identifying any other concern. Among that 43%, Clinton topped Bush better than...
...Clinton do it? A combination of a sick economy and an emphasis on the right issues. In exit polls 43% of the voters said they had been moved by the issue of the economy and jobs, more than twice as many as mentioned any other issue; they went for Clinton 52%. Asked what "quality" most influenced them, 37% specified a desire for change, and 25% sought the candidate with the "best plan"; they chose Clinton by 58% and 51% respectively. Bush scored on taxes, foreign policy and the general issue of honesty -- but those issues did not sway enough voters...
...inseparable. Clinton's first task, says the Progressive Policy Institute's Elaine Kamarck, must be "the definition of his mandate, something he needs to do early and often. If he doesn't do it, it will be done for him by the media, which will look to the exit polls and their own musings...
Television graphics are really the images which will anchor the 20th century in human history. CNN presented a piquant montage of flying insignia and colliding stars, all to the swirling depths of epic music. Interactive media reached its apogee in exit poll analysis in one broadcast, as sturdy colored columns thrust out of the presenter's table to represent voters' wishes. "Now, Diane, do we have a breakdown of veterans from the Korean as opposed to Vietnam wars?" Pollsters' minutiae assailed the retina, with columns, forecasts and maps pulsating in all directions, quite inexplicably, yet invoked in deadly serious tones...