News agencies combined their talents together and looked at results for several months. When their research was concluded, Bush won every scenario.
IIRC there was actually one scenario where Gore would have won a recount. Naturally, it was a completely contrived and far-fetched one, that involved a recount of the entire state of Florida (which Gore wanted to avoid at all costs), as well as some mysterious formula where certain undervotes or overvotes were counted. The media of course tried to run with this one as The One True Count, but it was so ridiculous that they had to drop it pretty quick.