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| | United States presidential election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | On election night, November 7, the media prematurely declared a winner twice based on exit polls before finally deciding that the Florida race was too close to call. |
 | | The outcome of the November 7 election was not known for more than a month after the balloting, because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Florida presidential ballots, which would ultimately decide the election. |
 | | Although Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said on November 9, 2000, "Palm Beach County is a Pat Buchanan stronghold and that's why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes there", Buchanan's Florida coordinator, Jim McConnell, responded, "That's nonsense", and Jim Cunningham, chairman of the executive committee of Palm Beach County's Reform Party, responded, "I don't think so. |
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