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SpeakOut.com Dial Group Projects Bill Bradley as Winner of Democratic Debate

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Janurary 26, 2000 — According to a dial group sponsored by SpeakOut.com, former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley bested Vice President Al Gore in tonight's Democratic presidential debate. The high-tech interactive focus group conducted during the debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, gauged the opinions of 74 likely Democratic and Republican voters.

Gore received the lowest scores from the panel. In sharp contrast, Bradley was acceptable to participants of both parties, often receiving higher scores from Republican voters than Gore did from Democrats.

"The dial group is just one more way SpeakOut.com is providing the American public with information on the issues being debated by all of the presidential candidates," said Ron Howard, Chairman and CEO, SpeakOut.com. "Our goal is to empower voters with the information they need to speak out and then provide them with the forum to do so."

Using standard methodologies, SpeakOut.com recruited 74 likely Democratic and Republican registered voters in Manchester, New Hampshire to participate in the "real-time analyzer" group to measure changing perceptions as they watched the debate. The participants registered their opinions via a hand-held dial, recording their moment-to-moment reactions to what they were seeing and hearing throughout the debate.

SpeakOut.com used various survey techniques to analyze all of the data. This analysis has been released to the media and placed on its website, www.SpeakOut.com.

About SpeakOut.com

Based in Washington, DC, SpeakOut.com is a new, non-partisan Internet activism web portal whose primary mission is to enhance the democratic process by enabling citizens to make a direct impact on the decisions that affect their lives. When launched officially in February 2000, SpeakOut.com users will enjoy a wide variety of news and information content tailored to their interests and activism tools allowing aggregated messaging to a vast array of public officeholders, candidates, business leaders and news executives.

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