Chapter 506: General Election Results
As the weekend passed, the 1992 U.S. presidential election was finally approaching.
The game that lasts for several months will eventually come to the results on November 3.
Although Ross Perrow, who is the sole candidate in the previous support rate survey, had a support rate of 20%, the pattern of the rule of the two parties in the United States has not changed. This year's election results will still be among the candidates of the two major parties.
However, compared with the situation where single candidates can only serve as foils in many years, Ross Perro's support rate in this US presidential election has also made both parties quite wary.
Monday passed by.
In order to facilitate public voting, on November 3, American universities, primary and secondary schools basically had a day off, and many companies also gave employees half a day off.
Simon still does not intend to vote in person in this election.
The main reason is that it is not like being watched by the media and does not want to trigger any public opinion effect.
So, the day before the election, Simon arrived in San Francisco.
The Igrit portal will conduct a 24-hour online live broadcast of this election. As an event-based traffic news that can greatly increase the attention of the website, the entire Igrit company attaches great importance to it and has started preparing one month in advance.
Simon and his female assistant woke up in the mountain villa in Woodside early Tuesday morning before four o'clock.
According to voting management, polling stations across the United States open voting at 6 a.m., with a deadline of 6 p.m., lasting 12 hours.
Arriving at the headquarters of Igret in downtown Palo Alto, the brightly lit office building is already busy.
The three giants of Igrit Company, Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Butz, have appeared at the headquarters, and Bezos, who is mainly responsible for the Internet business, has not only cared about the traffic brought to the website by this election, but also the significance of this election. Once Clinton wins the election, the federal domestic policies will be very biased towards the new technology field in the next few years, which is crucial to the rise of the Internet industry.
A group of senior executives gathered in an open large conference room where employees could see their workspaces, and the projector showed news and data about the election in real time.
It was only around four o'clock on the west coast, and it was already past seven o'clock on the east coast. New Hampton, which first started voting, had some early data released.
A town called Dicksville, located in New Hampton, was the first to open voting. The town participated in the voting in total. The preliminary statistics show that George Bush: 23 votes; Bill Clinton: 39 votes; Ross Perrow: 16 votes.
Bill Clinton is far ahead.
Although the voting results of a small town cannot affect the overall situation, they do not prevent the media from giving this kind of interpretation and meaning to the beginning.
This is obviously a good sign for those who support Clinton.
The Egret Portal immediately pushed the voting results of the town of Dixville to the headlines.
This is actually a kind of public opinion guidance.
You should know that people have a blind obedience mentality. When they see the voting results in small towns, many people may change their voting tendencies at some point.
In the US presidential election, this tendency is often accumulated bit by bit.
Not only the Igret portal, but also CNN TV, which also tends toward the Democratic camp, also reported the voting results of the small town of Dixville in real time.
Whether it is the old CNN or the emerging Igrit portal, it has become an important media platform that the United States cannot ignore and has a strong influence on the tendency of news and public opinion.
It just so happens that the two media platforms, compared to traditional newspapers, are both powerful in real time and powerful.
So, when the two major platforms reported the voting results of the Dicksville town at the same time, it quickly had a significant impact.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Brent crude oil futures on the London Commodity Exchange began to fluctuate downward.
In terms of how to defend it, the Bush family represents the interests of the American oil class and largely pushes up crude oil prices. There is no doubt that this is not a problem.
The decline in Brent crude oil futures prices is undoubtedly the most direct performance of the market's lead in the election results of a certain eastern town.
Both the Igret Portal and CNN have keenly grasped the fluctuations in crude oil futures prices and began to report further.
Bill Clinton, who set up an official blog in the Egret Portal very fashionable, also quickly delivered a thank-you speech for the voting results of the small town of Dixville. After being topped by the Egret Portal, it attracted a large number of public comments and support from the Internet who also followed the election.
In just half an hour, the number of messages left exceeded 120,000, which inevitably became a small news event, and even CNN's real-time news was broadcast.
Of course, the Bush camp has to refute this.
However, compared to Bill Clinton, who keeps pace with the times, because of the tendency of the Igrit Portal during this period, the Bush camp did not open an official blog in the Igrit Portal, so it could only refute the Igrit Portal and CNN because of the fuel of the voting results of a small town through the personal blog of a senior executive of the campaign team.
Although this blog was popular according to the blog's popularity rules, it was not artificially topped, and the attention was naturally much worse than Clinton.
When the West Coast lights up, most states in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii open their votes.
Throughout the day, the current news of the election and the comments from surrounding experts and media on various issues will be basically the election.
After everyone had breakfast together at around 7 o'clock, Jeff Bezos and Carol Butz also said they wanted to vote and leave temporarily. Tim Berners Lee was still of British nationality and did not join in the fun. He returned to the headquarters to take charge of the overall situation. Simon also followed with his female assistant, but did not get together with everyone anymore. Instead, he came to an office reserved for Simon at the headquarters.
The big man leaned on the leather chair and looked through today's newspaper. When the female assistant helped him turn on the computer, he sorted out several documents that the staff had just sent. Simon reached out and took the female assistant into his arms.
Jennifer glanced at the door and remembered that he had locked the door just now, so he felt relieved.
Watching Simon take off her small high heels, curl up her legs, hide a pair of small feet in stockings, divert the man's attention: "The bill on lifting telecom operators' no involvement in equipment manufacturing should have been passed at the end of last month, because of the matter of the Igret Portal, this matter was suppressed again. Do you think there will be any twists and turns?"
The female assistant was very slender, so although she was tall, she was hiding in Simon's arms and was carrying a clear bird-bearing dependent on others.
He hugged the female assistant's light body in his arms and kissed her fair neck. Simon said: "This is the general trend, not just the White House. If nothing unexpected happens, the Democratic Party will also control the Senate and the House of Representatives at the same time this time. Even if Bush delays it for a few more months and waits for the power to be handed over, this matter will still be passed."
Jennifer was itchy when she was kissed by the man, shrank her neck, turned her face over, and said, "But, I think it shouldn't be that simple."
It's really not that simple. Even if George Bush stepped down this time, the deep-rooted influence of the Bush family in American politics will not dissipate.
However, the so-called politics is nothing more than a game.
If our side obviously has an advantage, it would be too incompetent if it cannot pass a bill that the entire industry is very inclined to lift the ban.
Especially Bill Clinton.
This time, he successfully entered the White House, both Hollywood and Silicon Valley, gave him great support.
If the benefits these supporters deserve cannot be fulfilled after taking office, and the president wants to be re-elected, or even wants to continue to maintain his influence in politics after the end of his presidency, it will be impossible.
In this regard, according to Simon's memory in his previous life, Clinton was still a very trustworthy person.
The two were chatting when the door suddenly rang.
The female assistant was startled and jumped out of Simon's arms like a rabbit, then remembering that she was not wearing shoes.
He glared at the man with a grudge, found his shoes to put on, tidied up his clothes, and ran to open the door.
The person coming was Claire Gain, and there was another little tail named Jennifer behind the C girl.
Girl C did not say anything unusual because of the flush on the female assistant's face. She greeted Simon, and everyone sat down on the sofa in the reception area. In order to avoid the little embarrassment just now, the female assistant took the initiative to prepare coffee.
The tiny Jennifer Brie looked out of the office with the figure of the female assistant, then retracted her attention and fell on the man in front of her.
Although he looked restrained and well-behaved on the surface, the little mania of Jenny's beautiful blue eyes still carried the little fanaticism that he rushed to the stage of the Madonna concert toward a man.
It seems to be poisoned.
Every time Jennifer Brie remembers that he will have the opportunity to be with him every day in the future, he will have insomnia excitedly.
However, she is also a very smart girl.
Understand that if you act too enthusiastically, it may be counterproductive.
Therefore, now she no longer looks like his star-chasing person at all. Of course, everything about him can be seen everywhere in her apartment bedroom, and there are still many things, but she never opens her bedroom to others.
Well, except for him.
At this moment, facing the man in front of him, the girl couldn't help but feel distracted.
I can't help but wonder what he and another Jenny did in the office just now. It was obviously a very close thing. Will I be able to do this in the future?
Then some uncontrollable emotions arise.
After glanced at him a few times, the emotion became even more intense.
However, Simon looked at the little girl with a flushed face in front of him helplessly, chatted with Girl C for a while about Tinkobaier, and finally couldn't help but wink at her.
Claire noticed the reaction of the girl beside him, and it was also a little funny.
Although the girl hides her well on weekdays, as an equally smart woman, Claire can certainly see through the little girl's background.
But I didn't expect that the girl would suddenly reveal herself at this time.
The office door was pushed open again at this time, and the female assistant walked in with coffee. For some reason, Girl C didn't want the female assistant to see Xiao Zhenni's appearance at this time, so she reached out and pinched the girl's waist, leaned into her ear and said, "Zhen, you'd better go wash your face."
After being pinched by the C girl, it hurt a little. Jennifer Brie immediately reacted and stood up shyly and said, "Hug, sorry, I'll go to the bathroom."
After saying that, he got up and trotted out from the other side of the sofa.
The female assistant carefully held the coffee in her hand. Seeing the girl leaving in a hurry, she didn't notice the blushing on her face. Therefore, she was just a little curious and did not ask much. She put the tray on the coffee table and started to share coffee for everyone.
Little Jenny came back again, everything had returned to normal.
However, when I saw the female assistant sitting next to him, I couldn't help but envy her.
We have talked about Tinkobaier's company and paid attention to the progress of the election from time to time. Time flies.
This was until four o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast, and seven o'clock in the evening on the East Coast.
The election time for some states on the East Coast has expired one hour, and the voting results have been basically released.
At 7:08 East Coast time, Indiana, which is headquartered in the United States, was the first to announce the statistical results. George Bush won and won the first 12 electoral votes.
Indiana is close to the Great Lakes and belongs to the old heavy industrial zone in the United States. With the decline of the US automobile industry, the economy continues to be sluggish, so it is called the Rust Belt, which is also a traditional vote in the Republican camp.
Bush's first battle won, but this excitement lasted only 3 minutes.
At 7:11, the news came again, and the New Hampton vote count was released. This time, Bill Clinton won and won his first four electoral votes.
However, a series of eastern states and counties announced the election results, and Bill Clinton, who failed to get a good start, made a counterattack.
Maine, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware...
The New England region, which issued the earlier votes, almost all turned to Bill Clinton, while George Bush had an absolute advantage in the New England region in the last election.
Immediately afterwards, George Bush moved back to many disadvantages in the eastern and southern states. In addition to Georgia, the Republican traditional southern vote bar, Florida, Alabama, etc., George Bush successfully won them.
However, the southeastern states have also become George Bush's only advantage.
The rout began with the 'Rust Belt' that made George Bush a good start.
In the last few weeks of the Great Lakes area, the last election was still red, but this time, Indiana became the only red. Others such as Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, etc., all turned from red to blue.
When the statistics of the Eastern United States ended, Bill Clinton already had an absolute advantage.
Finally, around the early morning of the West Coast time, all the statistical results of the United States, including Hawaii, were released.
Bill Clinton won the 52nd US presidential election with an absolute advantage of 370 to 163 and successfully ascended the White House.
Chapter completed!