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Gallup Poll: How America Views George W. Bush

Aired December 19, 2000 - 4:38 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: A CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll shows that Americans seem to like Gore better since he conceded defeat. That same poll shows that Bush is falling short in his effort to court African-Americans.

Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport has more now from Princeton, New Jersey -- Frank.

FRANK NEWPORT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, GALLUP POLL: Indeed, Joie.

There are still divisions politically on the part of Americans. We can show you a question we just got through asking, which is: George W. Bush has won the election. How would you typify how he won it?

Now, we have broken it our here by Gore supporters and by Bush supporters. Now, this red bar is Bush supporters. And overwhelmingly, they say: Hey, our man won fair and square -- as you can see. But the yellow bars represent Gore voters. And very few of them think Bush won fair and square. About half say he won on a technicality. And about a third say that he stole the election. Now let's look at the same data, but let's break it out by whites and blacks.

Ninety percent of blacks voted for Gore, the data seemed to show. Over there, for white Americans, it's a little more varied, because there are white Democrats, obviously. But look at the data for black Americans. Very few say fair and square -- 39 percent a technicality. And you have got half of blacks in American today saying that they think that George W. Bush won the election. Actually, they say that he stole the election, is how they typify choosing between these three words: pretty harsh reaction from that community.

More generally speaking we have a negative reaction on the part of African-Americans about how the election system works today. There is the question: Does it discriminate? Thirty-nine percent of whites say yes. But look at his. This is very, very relevant here: 76 percent of blacks in America today say indeed they believe that the election system -- the way that we vote for people today -- discriminates against some groups, at least some of the time.

Now, we can look at very interesting reactions from the black community on George W. Bush. He said back at the Republican Convention in August -- that's these data here -- I am going to represent the interests of blacks, try hard to relate to them. He just has said it again, of course. But back then, we only had 37 percent who said they thought he could do it. Now, this past weekend, Bush has lost ground, as you can see here. Only 22 percent of African-Americans nationally says that George W. Bush will make that special effort to reach out to them, obviously results of that voting system.

Finally, one interesting trial heat, we call it: If the election were between Bush and Gore in 2004, who would you vote for? These are all Americans. Look at this. Gore actually is ahead of Bush at this point -- pretty meaningless this far out. And this is all national vote, not likely voters. But it goes to show, Joie -- and I think that is the key point -- that Al Gore has really resurrected his image, it looks like to us -- Joie.

CHEN: All right. Well, we will see if he gets a gig on Comedy Central. Frank Newport for us from the Gallup Poll.

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