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Who Really Won the GOP Debate?

According to CNN and AP, Governor George W. Bush and Senator John McCain won the recent New Hampshire GOP presidential debate hands down. However, Dick Morris' polling website: www.vote.com indicates that Ambassador Alan Keyes won by a significant plurality. According to Morris' unscientific poll, Keyes garnered 45% of the votes, followed by Bush with 29%, McCain with 17%, Steve Forbes with 6%, Senator Orrin Hatch and Gary Bauer with 1% each. Morris did not attempt to analyze the obvious discrepancy between the CNN and AP reports compared with his own poll results. It would be easy to pass off the poll as frivolous. However, I am not willing to do that. As a political independent I have watched each of the GOP presidential debates and I think that Dr. Keyes has been the clear winner each time. He speaks from the heart with passion and obvious knowledge of the issues. The establishment news media simply do not want to be perceived as promoting candidates who do not, in their infinite collective wisdom, have a chance to win, and this greatly biases their objectivity.

Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:03:05 -0800