# Did TV Networks try to help Gore Steal the Election?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 7, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-tv-networks-try-to-help-gore-steal-the-election/64688 "2001-05-07T22:12:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-tv-networks-try-to-help-gore-steal-the-election/64688/21 "2001-05-09T09:13:01Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mambo \*  
> \*\*I live in Tallahassee and I couldn’t resist going down to the protests at the State Capitol. What amazed me the most was that most Gore supporters were Floridians _while most Bush supporters were from out of state_. Somebody had bussed a lot of them in and others drove down. \*\*

I gotta ask. How did you know they were from out of state?

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**Author:** ![Mambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mambo)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-tv-networks-try-to-help-gore-steal-the-election/64688/22 "2001-05-09T13:42:32Z")

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I talked to a lot of the people there. Also, when I had first gotten there, most of the protesters were pro-Gore. After and hour, a whole mess of pro-Bush folk came together. I talked to some of them and they were all from out of state.

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-tv-networks-try-to-help-gore-steal-the-election/64688/23 "2001-05-09T17:03:25Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ElvisL1ves \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by rjung \*  
> > **Given that it’s now well-documented that George Bush’s first cousin was working at Fox News during the night of the election results and made the decision to call Florida for Bush (thus prompting the other news stations to play catch-up to Fox’s “breaking” story), isn’t the title of this thread erroneous?**
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> That didn’t happen until the wee hours, well after poll closing time. It did help create the perception that Bush was the “rightful” winner, and that Gore was just being a sore loser by insisting that the law be followed and the votes be counted. \*\*

Yep. And from where I was sitting, the media continued to promote the erroneous idea that Bush won in the morning after the election, despite the statistical ambiguity of the whole mess. Even as the Florida recount/stall dragged out, none of the major media outlets were willing to back down and say “Bush might not have won after all”.

So, with all of that stemming from Dubya’s cousin making the call on Fox News (and let’s face it, Fox News is hardly liberal-biased by any stretch of the term), the question we should really be discussing is, “Did TV Networks try to help Bush Steal the Election?”

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