Dan Rather will project New Jersey for Bush only after Hawaii polls have been closed for four hours and the made to stay open late polls in Saint Louis have closed.
They called Florida for Gore 52 minutes before the polls closed but would not call states won by Bush for hours after the polls closed.
Deliberate attempt to monkey with the election.
"They called Florida for Gore 52 minutes before the polls closed but would not call states won by Bush for hours after the polls closed."
The panhandle of Florida is one hour behind the rest of the State, however we can't be like liberals, folks. We have to get our facts straight. You are incorrect trying to say that any of the networks called the race around 52 minutes early that election night; what is correct is the FACT that NBC was the first to make the call for Gore 10 minutes and 20 seconds before the Florida panhandle polls were closed. Here are the on-air times for the network calls for Gore, Retraction of Gore, Bush, and Retraction of Bush for Florida on that election night/morning.
CLOSING STATE CBS ABC NBC/MSNBC FOX VNS WINNER
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7:00 PM Florida: 7:50:11 PM 8:02 PM, 7:49:40 PM* 7:52 PM, 7:52 PM Gore
Retraction 10:00:00 PM 10:16 PM Retraction
Bush 2:17:52 AM 2:20 AM 2:17:30 AM 2:16 AM* Bush
Retraction 3:57:49 AM* 4:00 AM 4:02:00 AM 4:05 AM Retraction
Note: The '*' indicates which network was first to make a call.
Note: All time in Eastern Standard Time.
Source: ON-AIR NETWORK AND VNS CALLS, PRESIDENTIAL RACE, NOV. 7/8, 2000
If the call had been made at 8:00pm EST exactly, it still would have cost Bush votes as many still in line might have just left, so condititioned are many to believe everything they see and hear on television...
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Negative. I believe it was along the lines of twelve minutes early, certainly not 52.
I was driving home from work on election night 2000, I had already voted. I heard the radio (ABC) news annouce that Georgia was too close to call...Georgia! I remember I was shocked and horrified because if Bush couldn't carry Georgia then he was going to lose big time. Of course, we know Bush won Georgia by double digits. The mainstream media tried to help Gore by not calling Bush states in a timely manner. The polls were still open in other states, and I firmly believe Gore would not have won the popular vote except that Repubs believed it was all over and didn't vote in various states. No matter what reports we hear, let's all vow to vote, vote, vote!