How Does the Public Perceive President-Elect Bush?
Aired December 14, 2000 – 2:18 p.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: Looking now at public opinion of President-Elect Bush and the high court decision that ended the challenge against him, we turn to the Gallup Poll’s editor-in-chief, Frank Newport. He joins us from Princeton, New Jersey — Frank. FRANK NEWPORT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, GALLUP POLL: Indeed, Joie. We hear a lot about the divided country and having to heal the wounds an all that, but consistently in our polling from Election Day on up actually until last night, we really haven’t seen strong evidence that the public is strongly divided or as we’ll show you in a moment even angry. Let’s look first to the question that we’ve asked actually a number times since the election. We started back on November 11th and 12th. If George W. Bush — or now that he is be inaugurated as the next president, will you accept him as the legitimate president? And you can se
