- After a week of high-stakes wrangling over Florida's
photo-finish presidential election, more Americans would rather see George
W. Bush become president than Vice President Al Gore, a New York Times/CBS
News poll has found.
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- Though Gore won the nation's popular vote on Election
Day 49 percent to 48 percent, his conduct in the days since has apparently
prompted some of his supporters to jump ship. The 1,720 adults surveyed
Friday through Sunday for the Times/CBS poll picked Bush over Gore by a
margin of 44 percent to 40 percent.
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- The Times reported that another 14 percent said they
"don't know" who should be president and 3 percent said neither
should go to the White House. The poll has a margin of error of plus or
minus 3 percent.
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- Unlike other post-election surveys conducted by Newsweek
and CNN/Time, New York Times/CBS pollsters used the same sample in this
survey as they used in pre-elections polls, which were comprised of registered
and likely voters.
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- The New York Times/CBS poll also showed that Bush supporters
remain adamant that their man won, while support among Gore backers is
weakening.
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- Ninety percent of Bush voters say the Texas governor
should go to the White House while just 74 percent of Gore voters want
the vice president to do the same.
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- Eighty-six percent of Bush voters approve of their man's
handling of the post-election crisis while just 73 percent of Gore voters
say the same thing about their candidate.
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- The stunning poll results first appeared in the Times'
Tuesday edition, where editors camouflaged the pro-Bush news by headlining
the least-newsworthy aspect of the poll's findings. Nowhere in the paper's
accompanying report are the new presidential preference numbers noted.
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- But statistical charts and graphs under the Times' yawner
headline "Americans Patiently Await Election Outcome" revealed
the paper's biggest discovery: the popular majority that voted for Al Gore
on Election day is deserting the vice president in droves.
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