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Article: Final 'Virtual Town Hall' Gives Bush 5-Point 'Cyber Debate' Win; National Online Focus Group Picks Bush In Pres. Race By Same Margin.
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- October 18, 2000
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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ --
Linked by the Internet, nearly 600 "virtual town hall" participants across the country Tuesday night did what guests at the actual presidential town hall debate here could not do: rate the debate, moment by moment, with instant results. The online focus group gave Texas Gov. George W. Bush a 5-point "cyber debate" victory, his second in as many weeks.
Virtual town hall respondents, clicking in their preferences at their home PCs, indicated that if the election were held today, 47 percent would vote for Bush and 42 percent would vote for Vice President Al Gore.
In a four-way race, Bush garnered 46 percent of ...