There is no room for any turnaround in the huge electoral vote gap between 370 and 163.

Bush Sr. quickly admitted his failure and congratulated Bill Clinton in Washington.

The Clintons and his wife are in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas.

When Bush Sr. admitted his failure, Bill Clinton immediately delivered a victory speech, reiterating a series of campaign commitments, and also said that his first priority after taking office was to restore the US economy. This attitude is in sharp contrast to Bush Sr.'s image of not caring about the economy.

Therefore, the next morning, the North American stock market showed a significant upward trend.

Although the outcome has been decided, the dust of this election has not been completely settled.

In the final vote data, Bill Clinton's approval rating was 43%, George Bush's approval rating was 38%, and Ross Perrow, the last third party's independent candidate, got a vote of 19%, although the billionaire's approval rating was as high as 19%.

Ross Perro suddenly withdrew from the election in July, when the candidates of both parties were completely finalized, leaving enough room for the two final candidates to play. He suddenly broke out in October, and pointed the finger at George Bush. The link in this cannot be described as a coincidence.

Unlike the huge gap in electoral votes, Bill Clinton's universal suffrage is only 5% ahead of George Bush, and the gap is not obvious in this regard.

Without Ross Perrow's split of up to 19% of the votes, most of which came from the same conservative camp as Bush, the outcome of this election was really unpredictable.

After this election, in many years, neither party in the United States dared to ignore the interference of the presidential election by the solemn candidates.

Even further, we began to take the initiative to exploit this interference.

In Simon's memory, in the 2000 match between Bush and Gore, the Republican Party used his own way to help him, and also used his own candidates to share Gore's votes. In the end, Bush Jr. barely won the election with a very controversial and narrow advantage.

On the other hand, Internet media has completely become a new force that can influence the direction of public opinion in the general election.

The key reason why media families such as the Hurst family, Newhouse family, etc. are attracted by the upper class of the federal government is that they have huge media resources and the right to speak that can influence the direction of public opinion.

After long-term integration and evolution, the influence structure of traditional TV media and paper media has been difficult to change. These old media families originally thought that they would continue to flourish for a long time, but the sudden Internet media caught many people off guard.

Although traditional TV networks such as ABC and veteran media giants such as Hurst Group have begun to operate their own consulting websites in the past two years, in order to avoid the impact of core business, they have invested very little in Internet media platforms and cannot compete with the information business of the Igrit Portal.

The most important point is that the Igrit portal also controls the interfaces of the entire World Wide Web.

For ordinary people, the World Wide Web is basically equivalent to the entire Internet.

Relying on browser software as a barrier-level weapon, as long as the public uses the Internet and opens the browser software, the first thing that jumps out is the Igrit portal.

Like many navigation websites in Simon's memory, the Igrit Portal, at least a simple portal framework, is very easy to copy, but the core ones, such as email technology, search technology, etc., are not so easy to follow the trend, and they must also involve technical patent issues.

Moreover, because of the preconceived concept, Igrit Company developed the IE browser, which takes the Igrit portal as the homepage, and is a homepage that cannot be changed at all, which is natural to many people.

If you copy a portal website, according to the normal logic of most people, it is natural to be banned by Igret Company.

In short, although the number of Internet sites has shown an exponential upward trend, the Igrit Portal is already a difficult Internet industry overlord. The websites run by other companies not only come from Igrit Company. If you want to obtain more traffic, you must also find ways to join the Igrit Portal navigation page.

In short, a new media force like Internet media is basically in the hands of Igret, or in the Westeros system.

In the last month of the election, the company did not disclose relevant data on the specific effects of the Egret Portal, and the outside world can only guess about this.

However, on the day of the election, real-time reports on the first town in New Hampton that began voting even affected the London crude oil futures trading market. Although there may be some influence of CNN, this most intuitive public opinion control effect cannot be ignored by anyone.

Simon had just watched Clinton's victory speech in San Francisco, and the incoming new president expressed his gratitude through Joseph Schrapp in less than half an hour.

The timing is too sensitive, and it is not suitable for two people to talk directly.

Not only that, Clinton also sent a message saying that he would arrange a visit to Silicon Valley as soon as possible after taking office next year.

Visiting Silicon Valley is actually an attitude and a promise.

When Bill Clinton was just one of the candidates, the Westeros system, which was directly betting, began to help clear some of the messed ups and downs of this person. Clinton's statement at this time was enough to see that the Westeros system's efforts for more than a year have not been in vain.

The Clintons were able to dominate the American political arena for decades, largely because they were indeed very trustworthy and would fulfill the benefits as much as possible when they promised. Therefore, compared with the Kennedy family, the Bush family, the political wealthy families, finally reached the top after several generations of business. The couple almost started from scratch and created a very large political network, and later almost became the first couple president in the American political arena.

In the final stage of the election, facing the Igret portal, the White House also looked aggressive and claimed through the Ministry of Justice that it would launch an antitrust investigation into the IE browser software.

However, as Bush's defeat was settled, things also changed very subtly.

The Bush family has very mature political literacy, and the failure of Bush Sr. does not mean that the Bush family's political life is complete. Therefore, the other party is also very clear that offending Simon Westeros too much is not good for himself.

The remarks that IE browser were just being investigated last month cannot be swallowed up directly. However, the day after the election, news came from the White House that the Igrit Portal had been trying to obtain suddenly passed the review.

Before this, as a newly emerging new media platform, the White House had refused to issue White House correspondent certificates to the Igrit Portal for various reasons.

Whether you can be qualified to interview the White House press conference is an important manifestation of the influence of the American media.

Although he had a foreseeable feeling that the White House suddenly made such a move, there might be some intentions to provoke the traditional media and the Igrit portal, Simon still admired Bush's quickness and neatness.

Actually, it is.

The election results have been released. If Bush still insists on squeezing the small White House reporter's certificate, he will only be able to delay for another three months at most.

By passing at this time, there are both provocation and temptation.

Testing whether there is a possibility of winning over the Igrit portal. Even if you don’t ask the Igrit portal to turn directly to the Republican Party, as long as you remain neutral when needed in the future, it will be a reward.

True, true, false, false, false, true.

Faced with the White House's temptation, the Igrit Portal subsequently released a news article about the current president in an important section in response.

On the other hand, with the end of this election, Simon also predicted that next year will be a year for the Internet industry to explode more significantly.

Influenced by Simon, the big butterfly, the graphical interface browser software was launched three years in advance. The Igrit portal website was just launched, and its business model was close to the level around the new century. Whether it is functions such as email or content services such as online consultation, with the Westeros system's almost burning money, it has quickly reached a level of richness that is enough to attract ordinary public users.

For Americans today, spending about $30 a month is roughly equivalent to the daily price of subscribing to one or two newspapers, but the services obtained are far more than the content information that one or two newspapers can provide, which is undoubtedly very cost-effective.

Moreover, the most important point is that as one of the most developed countries in the world, the American public has strong consumption capacity.

In the country where Simon was once located, the popularity rate of video recorders and video disc machines was not too high throughout the entire life cycle from birth to decline. However, in the United States, both video recorders and video disc machines, the popularity rate of family once reached more than 80%.

The same is true for personal computers and the Internet.

On the original timeline, the graphical interface browser was born in 1993 and Yahoo was founded in 1995, and then it began the era of the explosion of the Internet.

From 1995 to 2000, in just five years, the number of Internet users in the United States had reached 110 million, far exceeding the Internet penetration rate in other countries.

Now, with the improvement of the software and hardware foundations, Simon has made the development process of the Internet industry three to five years ahead of the process by doing nothing.

It is estimated that by the end of 1992, the number of Internet users in the United States will reach about 28 million, and the number of Internet users will be covered by more than 40 million.

It only took three years from the time of efforts to the end of 1990.

Supported by strong consumption capacity, by 1995, the number of Internet users in the United States will likely be close to the 2000 level in the original time and space.

Of course, on the other hand, because Simon's "sweeping seedlings are forcing growth", the capital market's response to the Internet industry is still a bit slow.

In the original timeline, technology stocks experienced irrational super explosions in the last two years of the Internet bubble from 1999 to 2000. This time, there were many capitals that had not followed up with the outbreak of the industry. Although technology stocks have begun to be sought after, they have not yet reached the stage of taking off.

However, this time is still next year.

The main thing is the European currency crisis that just passed.

However, the British government spent more than 20 billion pounds to maintain the pound exchange rate, and this money would not disappear out of thin air. In addition, countries such as Italy, France and Spain all suffered heavy losses in this crisis, and all of them were obtained by international hot money mainly in the United States.

Just as the Asian financial crisis in 1997 brought large amounts of funds to push up North American Internet technology stocks, this time, the large amount of funds obtained by international hot money will naturally instinctively find investment channels with more appreciation potential.

Europe has begun a new round of economic recession, and Asia has become Japan's back garden.

Therefore, the new technology and Internet industries in North America seem to be the most appropriate.

It is already the end of the year. After the election, Simon remains in San Francisco and discusses the company's development plans for next year with a senior executive of Igrit.

First of all, we must open up further.

The email technology authorization for Microsoft and American Online has been negotiated, but third parties that have nothing to do with the Westeros system have not been found yet.

At this stage, important new technology companies related to the Internet are almost all related to the Westeros system.

If you simply authorize a weak third-party company, the other party may be acquired by veteran giants such as IBM in a blink of an eye. Even if this can be locked in the technology licensing agreement, it is actually better to authorize the technology to a weak enterprise than to not authorize the authorization person at all.

Therefore, the temporary decision is only Microsoft and American Online.

As for what the outside world thinks, we can only let the other party go.

At the same time, in recent years, Egret Company once again decided to place some relatively basic patents into the World Wide Web Alliance Foundation and open them to the industry for free.

Simon is actually considering that Igrett is giving up some non-core businesses in order to give other Internet companies enough room for development.

However, Egret Company still supports most of the services of the entire Internet platform at this stage, and it is not suitable for giving up whether it is email, online forum, software store, personal blog, etc.

Even if you want to give up, it will be a matter after going public.

More precisely, it is best to wait until the Internet bubble burst, and then, the Igrit portal can naturally get rid of many non-core businesses on the grounds of streamlining business.

At this stage, if one more business is added, the stock price will grow one more point in the future.

There is also the issue of splitting, which also involves future listing issues.

Although there are often conflicts between the two strong managers, Jeff Bezos and Carol Butz, the two of them opposed Simon's request for splitting.
Chapter completed!