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This book, by a career pollster who lost his job at Gallup for writing it, returns to the scene of the primal crime: the theft of the presidency from the votes of the American people in 2000.

Through his professional contacts as a polling expert, David Moore pieced together how the calling of the election for George W. Bush by FOX News in 2000 was not motivated by data, but by a phone call to John Ellis -- a first cousin of George W. Bush -- from Jeb Bush, also Ellis's first cousin.

It has been known for years that Ellis -- who just "coincidentally" headed the FOX election team that called the 2000 elections -- bragged about talking with George and Jeb throughout that chaotic election night. But what has not been revealed until now is that Ellis made the decision to declare Florida for Bush on the basis of Jeb telling him that George had won.

Moore has the professional bonafides to make his case stick. BuzzFlash talked to him the evening before posting this premium -- and he appears to have well-researched his indictment. He not only has the professional expertise to debunk the rush to judgment by first FOX and then the rest of the television stations in 2000, he had the professional contacts to get eyewitness corroboration of what happened that evening in the rooms where the different "experts" called the election for Bush -- thus making his election appear inevitable.

In our conversation with Moore, and in his book, he points out that given the closeness of the election based on the vote count at the time, the networks should have never called the election at all. Even based on the "official" vote count -- as irregular as we know it was -- it was well within the margin of error by early in the morning.

But Ellis apparently called the election not based on data, but due to a call from his first cousin, Jeb. Ellis, after one of his many phone calls with Jeb, shouted, "Jebbie says we got it! Jebbie says we got it!" With that, FOX, defying the Voter News Service -- who advised the networks not to call the race -- had FOX declare Bush the winner. That set in motion a domino of "Bush Win" declarations by the other Networks, who did not want to be left behind.

In short, Jeb Bush, through his cousin, personally declared Bush the winner -- and that was the basis of the FOX Network decision to put Florida in Bush's column.

From then on, Al Gore had to fight the thuggish Bush propaganda that Gore was trying to "steal the election" from Bush. It was all a set up.

And that doesn't count for the tens of thousands of votes that were stolen from Gore or denied to him through the infamous "felon purge."

This is an important book, from a polling professional, who was personally present that evening at the CNN/CBS election desk -- and who now reveals what truly came down on election eve 2000.

Jeb Bush, John Ellis and FOX News were basically the "drivers" for the mob that night. They set the wheels in motion for a power grab that has only grown more grievous to our Constitutional form of government as the years have passed.

The official release date of this book is October 10, 2006, but BuzzFlash has it now.

"This is the inside story of how Jeb Bush persuaded the Fox network to call the presidential election for his brother George W. Bush on Election Night 2000. It was one phone call to Fox — the details of which are revealed in this book for the first time — that propelled George W. Bush into leading position for 43rd president of the United States. Even though the erroneous statement had to be retracted within two hours, the damage done by this false call to Al Gore's chances of winning the election were incalculable.

David Moore, at the time senior editor for the Gallup Poll, makes the plausible and alarming case that, had Fox not made this miscall, the resulting political environment would have been less biased in favor of Bush, and that Al Gore could have won.

On Election Night in 2000, Moore was with the exit poll 'decision team' of CBS and CNN, taking notes on how election races were called, and miscalled, around the country — including the two miscalls and two rescissions in Florida.

Prior to joining Gallup in 1993, Moore was founder and director of the Survey Center at the University of New Hampshire."

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