Media is Bizarre on Bush-Gore Race

[Nathan Newman]

The media is acting very strange with its not-so-subtle drumbeat for Gore to
concede the race.
Oddly, Gore is ahead in the popular vote.
He is ahead in the electoral college vote minus Florida.
And he has basically won every court decision so far in Florida on the hand
recounts.

In a sense, the only explanation is that the media called the election for
Bush and they institutionally don't want to be proven wrong after all their
earlier mistakes.

But at this point, I feel pretty confident in saying that there will be a
hand recount of the major counties under discussion that will be added to
Gore's total.  Since news is that the absentee ballots, especially the
military ones, are lower than predicted, that seems likely to tip the
election to Gore.

Looks like I'll be paying up my bet to Seth.

-- Nathan Newman