Are the Networks Biased? ``Calling'' States in the 2000 Presidential Election

J. Mixon, Amit Sen and E. Frank Stephenson

Public Choice, 2004, vol. 118, issue 1_2, 53-59

Abstract: Among the controversies arising from the 2000 Presidential election was the accusation that media networks called, or projected, a winner faster in those states won by Albert Gore than in those states won by George W. Bush. We investigate this accusation by estimating a Tobit model of the length of time between states' poll closing times and the times at which CNN projected a winner. Our results support the charge of media bias. After controlling for other factors that affect how quickly a state is called, states called for Gore were called 14 to 18 minutes faster than those called in favor of Bush.

Date: 2004
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