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1. "CBS Anchor: Al Gore Won the 2000 Election
2. CBS News anchor Tanya Rivero incorrectly claimed Al Gore won the 2000 election and that the Supreme Court "awarded" the presidency to George W. Bush.
Rivero made the comments in a Tuesday interview with American University history professor Allan Lichtman. She credited Lichtman with having correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984, despite Lichtman predicting Al Gore would win in 2000.
"From 1984 through 2012, American University history professor Allan Lichtman's popular vote predictions were perfect, including the 2000 election, which the Supreme Court ultimately awarded to George W. Bush," Rivero said.
The Supreme Court did not "award" Bush the presidency in 2000. Bush won the contested state of Florida, giving him enough electoral votes to win the electoral college. Rivero was correct in stating Gore won the popular vote, but the graphic CBS News displayed during the segment—and later promoted on Twitter—did not clarify that Lichtman's predictions focused on the popular vote.
Adding to the confusion, the graphic shows Lichtman correctly predicted Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. Like Bush, Trump won the electoral college but failed to win the popular vote.
CBS News: Al Gore Won the 2000 Election
3. “Gore won” is the equivalent of a political Stanford-Binet IQ Test. And this is a one-question test, so the stakes are high. The bad news, you failed. The good news? Your level of knowledge has attained its nadir, so you have no place to go, but up.
Here is the correct response, you may use it to prepare for your next exam:
In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
4. The lead of an April 4, 2001 USA Today story headlined, “Newspapers' recount shows Bush prevailed,” by reporter Dennis Cauchon:
George W. Bush would have won a hand count of Florida's disputed ballots if the standard advocated by Al Gore had been used, the first full study of the ballots reveals. Bush would have won by 1,665 votes -- more than triple his official 537-vote margin -- if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as votes, a USA TODAY/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study shows. The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots that were at the center of Florida's disputed presidential election....
New York Times headline clearly stated, "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/recount/12VOTE.html
Government schooling and the media presage the end of America.
1. "CBS Anchor: Al Gore Won the 2000 Election
2. CBS News anchor Tanya Rivero incorrectly claimed Al Gore won the 2000 election and that the Supreme Court "awarded" the presidency to George W. Bush.
Rivero made the comments in a Tuesday interview with American University history professor Allan Lichtman. She credited Lichtman with having correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984, despite Lichtman predicting Al Gore would win in 2000.
"From 1984 through 2012, American University history professor Allan Lichtman's popular vote predictions were perfect, including the 2000 election, which the Supreme Court ultimately awarded to George W. Bush," Rivero said.
The Supreme Court did not "award" Bush the presidency in 2000. Bush won the contested state of Florida, giving him enough electoral votes to win the electoral college. Rivero was correct in stating Gore won the popular vote, but the graphic CBS News displayed during the segment—and later promoted on Twitter—did not clarify that Lichtman's predictions focused on the popular vote.
Adding to the confusion, the graphic shows Lichtman correctly predicted Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. Like Bush, Trump won the electoral college but failed to win the popular vote.
CBS News: Al Gore Won the 2000 Election
3. “Gore won” is the equivalent of a political Stanford-Binet IQ Test. And this is a one-question test, so the stakes are high. The bad news, you failed. The good news? Your level of knowledge has attained its nadir, so you have no place to go, but up.
Here is the correct response, you may use it to prepare for your next exam:
In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
4. The lead of an April 4, 2001 USA Today story headlined, “Newspapers' recount shows Bush prevailed,” by reporter Dennis Cauchon:
George W. Bush would have won a hand count of Florida's disputed ballots if the standard advocated by Al Gore had been used, the first full study of the ballots reveals. Bush would have won by 1,665 votes -- more than triple his official 537-vote margin -- if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as votes, a USA TODAY/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study shows. The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots that were at the center of Florida's disputed presidential election....
New York Times headline clearly stated, "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote,
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/recount/12VOTE.html
Government schooling and the media presage the end of America.
