SurveyUSA Gore: Contest or Concede? Miami and Houston Polls Apart, Splits Differ Across America.Business Editors VERONA, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000 6 of 10 Adults in Miami Want Gore to Continue His Fight George W. Bush may have been certified the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes on Sunday, but Americans are sharply divided over whether or not vice president Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore should concede to the Texas governor or continue to fight for uncounted votes, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a just-released results of 21 separate SurveyUSA polls of 10,500 adults for stations including WJLA-TV/Washington D.C. (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ), WDIV-TV/Detroit (NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. ), WGCL-TV/Atlanta (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ), KPRC-TV/Houston (NBC), WPLG-TV/Miami (ABC), KUSA-TV/Denver (NBC), KDKA-TV/Pittsburgh (CBS), WKMG-TV/Orlando (CBS), WMAR-TV/Baltimore (ABC), WVIT-TV/Hartford (NBC), WBTV/Charlotte (CBS), WTVD-TV/Raleigh-Durham (ABC), WCPO-TV/Cincinnati (ABC), WSYX-TV/Columbus (ABC), WZZM-TV/Grand Rapids (ABC), WPTV/West Palm Beach (NBC), WLNE-TV/Providence (ABC), KVBC-TV/Las Vegas (NBC), KFOR-TV/Oklahoma City (NBC), WWBT-TV/Richmond (NBC), Here are the key findings of the news surveys of November 27: -- Half of Florida adults say Gore should continue to contest the outcome, rather than concede to George W. Bush. -- 6 of 10 in Miami say Gore should continue to fight the outcome. Miami-Dade's hand recount was stopped before all the ballots were recounted. -- 2 of 3 of Miami adults say Katherine Harris should have allowed extra time for Palm Beach to finish handcounting its ballots. -- African-Americans were the most likely to say Gore should continue to contest in a number of areas: 4 of 5 African-Americans in the state of Michigan, 7 of 10 in Houston, Baltimore and the state of Florida, 3 of 4 African-Americans in Washington D.C., and 3 of 5 in Orlando. -- 68% of adults in Cincinnati say the legal issues of this election should ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. -- 6 of 10 Las Vegas adults say the election process in Florida has not been fair. -- 6 of 10 Orlando adults say the aftermath of this election will make them more likely to vote in future elections. -- 4 of 10 Pittsburgh adults say Bush is trying to steal the election. Half of Pittsburgh adults feel thesame way about Al Gore. The breakdown by regions surveyed: Should Gore Continue to Contest the Election? Or Concede? SurveyUSA asked: Based on what you know right now, Should Al Gore continue to contest the outcome of the election, or should Gore concede the election to Bush?
Market Gore Should Gore Should Concede
Still Contest
Miami 60% 36%
Providence 57% 40%
Detroit 52% 43%
State of Connecticut(a) 51% 47%
State of Florida 50% 46%
Washington, D.C.(a) 49% 46%
Los Angeles(a) 46% 49%
Baltimore 45% 52%
Las Vegas 44% 53%
Raleigh-Durham 40% 54%
State of Michigan 43% 54%
Pittsburgh 42% 55%
Orlando 42% 55%
Richmond 40% 57%
State of Colorado 40% 58%
Charlotte 37% 58%
Atlanta 36% 60%
Columbus 36% 60%
Houston 35% 61%
Cincinnati 33% 63%
Oklahoma City 30% 64%
(a) Statistical Tie.
About SurveyUSA: SurveyUSA conducts random-sample opinion research under long-term contract for the nation's largest media companies. SurveyUSA is America's largest regional pollster poll·ster n. One that takes public-opinion surveys. Also called polltaker. Word History: The suffix -ster is nowadays most familiar in words like pollster, jokester, huckster, . Millions of Americans see SurveyUSA data nightly on TV stations owned by or affiliated with ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. SurveyUSA is a registered trademark of Hypotenuse In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle. See sine. (mathematics) hypotenuse - The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle. , Inc., 15 Bloomfield Ave., Verona, NJ. 800-685-8500. For comment, analysis or actuality, contact Fred Bierman at 818-784-0600, Extension 201. About these 21 separate surveys: SurveyUSA interviewed by telephone 500 adults in the each of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Washington, D.C., Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Baltimore, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Cincinnati, Columbus, Providence, Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm , Richmond, DMAs and 500 adults each in the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, and Michigan on 11/27/2000. Random sample was provided by Survey Sampler sampler, sample piece of needlework or embroidery, of silk, cotton, or worsted, for the preservation of some pattern or as an example of the ability of a child or a beginner. In museums and private collections there are samplers dating from as early as 1643. . Results have been minimally weighted to adjust for sample variations relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc age, gender, ethnic origin, and region. In theory, if the identical survey were conducted 100 times, in 95 cases the results would not differ by more than 4.5%. For smaller subgroups, a larger margin of error applies. Keywords: Al Gore, contest, concede, election, electoral votes, electoral college electoral college, in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, , Florida, Miami, Palm Beach, West Palm, Polls, vice president, governor, Texas |
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