The 2000 election confirms the widespread public perception that the media are advocates, not reporters. Many people standing in long lines, or still on their way to vote, then went home thinking their vote didn't matter. This could have amounted to thousands of people, a decisive margin in Florida.
Many people think so.
The networks' announcements later in the evening, retracting the false story, then calling Florida for Bush, and then retracting that call, were all after the Florida polls had closed. Maybe those were just sloppy attempts to confuse the public about the import of the original announcement that was so damaging to Bush. Bush won Florida in the original vote count. Then, after the mandatory recount because the margin was so small, Bush won Florida again. Gore has real chutzpa in selecting Daley to monitor the Florida recounts.