"Jebbie says we got it!" Ellis shouted to the Fox decision team

[DoYouEverWonder]

September 28, 2006

Former UNH professor and pollster David Moore contends that his new book about the 2000 presidential election - titled "How to Steal an Election" - is not partisan. Moore said he knows it's a "hard sell," but he argues the book simply explains how George W. Bush took the presidency that was rightfully won by Al Gore.

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Moore's book tells the story of election night 2000 by focusing on the folks who crunched the numbers for network television. He argues that the television stations calling Florida - and therefore the election - for Bush in the early morning hours after the election may have been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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The book kicks off with an explosive anecdote. Fox, the first network to call Florida and the election for George Bush, had a decision team headed by Bush's first cousin, John Ellis. For years, Ellis has maintained that he made the call by looking at the numbers and making back-of-the-envelope calculations.

But Moore has a different account, from the statistician who sat next to Ellis that night. Cynthia Talkov didn't see Ellis making any calculations, Moore writes, but she did hear what he said after he got off the phone with George Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

"Jebbie says we got it! Jebbie says we got it!" Ellis shouted to the Fox decision team, according to Moore's book.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/REPOSITORY/609280383/1043/NEWS01

Jebbie say we got it! That says it all, doesn't it?

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I hope this book shoot up to #1 on the best seller list.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Got it

Thanks

[jarnocan]

3. do something www.worldcantwait.net think

that Boxer ballot bill will even pass? Maybe but I doubt it, democracy is NOT a priority to the powers that be. impeachforpeace.org

[soup]

4. I remember he promised to 'deliver Florida'.

Can't find the exact quote right now, but those were the words - a promise to 'deliver Florida'.
I stayed up that night to watch the election results... Ha! been a basket case ever since.

Who came first - John Ellis Bush, or John Ellis?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. What a night

I was out of town at a trade show and ended up in a bar called Puckers. (I don't normally even go to bars). This was after almost getting my ass kicked at dinner by a woman from Colorado who didn't like it when it I said, 'What was wrong with 8 years of peace and prosperity?' I'll tell you I was the life of the party that night.

One of the people with us was an older man from South Dakota. When we got to the bar both of us went for the first TV we could find and switched the channel to the election news. We made quite the pair. Me an middle aged raving liberal hippie and this fellow who was very conservative and very Republican. Believe it or not we actually had a good time together but we both finally gave up at about 1:00AM when they still couldn't figure out who won FL.

[tanyev]

6. The anecdote about John Ellis always makes my stomach queasy.

"Jebbie says we got it!" puts me right over the top. :puke:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. you think they make it in coloring book version?

so that our freeper brethren can take it all in? like they'd care?

[Raster]

8. History will ultimately remember bush* and the chump, the puppet-ruler

History will remember jeb bush* as one lying, dangerous, conniving bastard.