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Election 2000: White House Tourists Comment on the Florida Recount

Aired November 16, 2000 - 10:49 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: All right, we are playing all of that patriotic music because we're going to go to Washington now, not to talk to the usual suspects, but to people who have come there from around the country to visit the White House. And to some of them, it turns out, it doesn't really matter who will be there soon.

Kate Snow is keeping an eye on their opinions. She is joining us now from the Visitor's Center just down the street.

Kate, good morning, once again.

KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Stephen. That is right, folks either coming from the White House or going into a tour of the White House this morning. Right now, I am going to talk to someone who is actually a native Washingtonian, she is actually from Washington, D.C., Marie Primus Bradshaw (ph).

You just went through the White House and you enjoyed that. Let me ask about this election. You and I have been talking about Florida. You feel like there does need to be a recount, that the hand recounts are the right thing to do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I do. I definitely think that they need to be recounted because I think everything should be done accurately and fairly so that each person will feel that his vote really does count.

SNOW: And you are a Gore supporter. You voted for Gore. Did you, did you -- do you sense that there were problems on election night?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not for myself. But later on, I stayed up until 4:30 in the morning on election night, into Wednesday morning because I just couldn't believe how the votes were coming in. And then, when Florida was granted to Gore, and then taken back, and then granted to Bush, and then taken back, it was just like, oh, my goodness, this is really a close election. And it just was, it was just something that we have never witnessed before, certainly not in my lifetime.

SNOW: Governor Bush has said he doesn't want these hand recounts to occur because he feels like it's much too subjective, people looking at those ballots individually, it's too subjective. What do you think of that?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I disagree with that. Because I think that a lot of time, the people were probably not able to actually make their puncture on their ballot because there were debris in the counting slot, and also, because, it -- it is not subjective if you can see that a person was trying make a vote, you know, cast a vote, but it maybe didn't go all the way through.

SNOW: A very different opinion, though, from Arnie Shult (ph). You are from Portland, Oregon, visiting. You are a tourist.

You are a Bush supporter and you watched them both last night. Tell me what you thought about Gore first of all.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gore didn't look at the people. He kept looking at the audience, everywhere else, and I don't feel that he is honest because he won't look at people. And there is a lot of other things about Gore too, but that is a big thing that comes through to me.

Bush, on the other hand, looked right square at the camera, the people, and I think that is real important, to have eye contact.

SNOW: What about what Gore said, though, he made an offer. He said, look, if for recount these counties, or the entire state of Florida, I'll agree with it, I'll go along with it. Wasn't that a generous offer?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. No. It's been counted once by machine, it has been counted twice by machine. I think now, if you count again by hand, where people have to look at it, they make an individual decision. I get the impression it's a little boy that is not happy with the outcome, and he wants to keep going and keep going and keep going, and ask mommy and ask daddy and ask Uncle Sam if somebody will finally give me the right answer I want. I just don't like the way it is going.

SNOW: Very strong opinions, we appreciate your time. We are here outside the White House Tour Office, folks going in the White House, a lot of talk about this election out here this morning -- Stephen.

FRAZIER: Kate, thank you.

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