# A proposal to bring both Bush and Gore supporters together

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proposal-to-bring-both-bush-and-gore-supporters-together/40279>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 8, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proposal-to-bring-both-bush-and-gore-supporters-together/40279 "2000-11-08T10:20:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proposal-to-bring-both-bush-and-gore-supporters-together/40279/1 "2000-11-08T10:20:02Z")

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I move that every newsbeing who “called” the state of Florida for either candidate be covered with honey and staked out on an anthill.

(5:19 AM EST, 900-vote lead for Bush.)

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-proposal-to-bring-both-bush-and-gore-supporters-together/40279/2 "2000-11-08T10:27:33Z")

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Bush likely has it.

But in a spirit of bi-partisanship, I must say that two things from this night are very gratifying:

- The media’s obsessive fascination with polls over the last few weeks made them look really stupid, because virtually all of them were wrong.

- The media’s obsessive fascination with being the first to call various state races made them look ridiculous, in a way that will go down in history.

Do you ever wonder how so-and-so political pundit from such-and-such newspaper or magazine ever has time to write an article, let alone gather information for one, when they are on TV for hours every day?