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...final returns from Florida showed the margin of victory to be within 200 votes, forcing an immediate recount in Dade County, home to the late totaled precincts...
Polls are still showing the race incredibly tight. Nearly every national poll shows Bush ahead--but within the margin era. Estimates of which candidate would win the electoral vote are essentially split...
...statewide poll conducted last week by the Boston Herald and Boston's WCVB-TV showed the question leads by a 47 to 37 percentage point margin. However, opposition to the cut seems to be gaining momentum, as the approval rating for the cut has shrunk dramatically since the summer...
...Internet: A landslide. This, at least, is the hopes of those renegade web journalists who plan to ignore the embargo on exit-poll results and post them as soon as they become available, while the TV networks sit on their hands. The bigger the win, the greater the margin by which Matt Drudge, say, can scoop Tom Brokaw. If winners start getting announced online early, expect pressure on TV to end-around the embargo by reporting the "news" of the leaks...
...reason? The media have been telling you for the past several days they thought this election was too close to call. They were lying. Oh sure -margin of error, blah blah blah. But behind it all, for the past few days, the subtext, not too hard to catch if you watched a lot of cable news, was that we were about to meet President Dubya. (Which, again, we still might.) Bush was confident, Gore was struggling; Bush was striking broad, presidential themes, Gre was still trying to find his message...