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How To Steal An Election

The Inside Story of How George Bush's Brother and Fox Network Miscalled the 2000 Election and Changed the Course of History

David Moore
September 2006     ISBN: 1560259299

When Florida Governor Jeb Bush persuaded the Fox Network to call the presidential election for George W. Bush on Election Night 2000, the move triggered other news networks to make the same erroneous call, and Al Gore to concede the election.

Although news networks rescinded their projection within two hours, the hostile environment crated by their miscall, as well as Gore's retraction of his concession, fatally undermined Vice President Gore's chances of obtaining a full hand recount of the Florida vote--and ultimate victory.

In this revealing book, former Gallup pollster David W. Moore makes the plausible and alarming case that, had Fox not made the initial miscall, Gore could have won the election. He details how the Bush family and their operatives did all that they could do to "create [their] own reality," as one such operative told Ron Suskind of the New York Times magazine.

About the Authors

David W. Moore was a senior editor with the Gallup Poll for thirteen years and, before that, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America. Moore is currently a full-time writer and polling consultant.

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