The voting process of the midterm election is similar to that of the presidential election, the difference is that there is no need for national statistics this time.

Simon left Manhattan and rushed to Greenwich in the afternoon to meet with Joseph Schlap, and began to pay attention to the election information coming from various states.

As usual, the Igret Portal broadcasted the entire midterm election live.

Although it is just a graphic form, it still once again demonstrates the huge advantages of Internet media in terms of immediacy and content capacity compared to print media and television.

Not only that, the media network that Igrit has gradually improved across the United States has also become an indirect intelligence system of the Westeros system. Through a team of journalists distributed throughout the federal area, Simon can obtain the various information he needs in a timely manner in Greenwich's estate.

After 6 p.m. Eastern Time, the election results were released one after another.

The main layout of the Westeros system is in densely populated areas on the east and west coasts. Therefore, the results of the first relevant member elections on the east coast quickly spread to the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

On the sniper list, Connecticut Rep. David Meroth, who ranks second only to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Craig Ems, was the first to lose. This Congressman, who also belongs to the Democratic camp, became the focus of this sniper plan because he is a hardcore in the Hurst family.

Although David Meroth quietly handed over to surrender after the collapse of the Hurst family building, Simon did not let the other party go.

If David Meroth had not strongly encouraged the House of Representatives to establish a special committee of investigation in the first half of the year to conduct an antitrust investigation into the Westeros system, there would have been no official filing of the three giants Cisco-American Online-Igrit.

If you cause losses, you will want to get out after giving in. There is no such good thing in the world.

In the final election result, David Meroth lost to his opponent with a huge difference of 33% to 67% in his constituency.

At around 8:30, the results of the Wisconsin election came.

The top Democratic Senator Craig Emes, who ranked first in the sniper list, lost the election, with a 39% win of 61%, which was also a crushing defeat.

Unwilling to fail, Craig Ames immediately launched an attack on the Westeros system after the election results were released, claiming that the election was manipulated and loudly called on Congress to investigate the shady situation of the senator election in Wisconsin.

Just as all kinds of troubles are inevitable after the presidential election, Craig Ames' reaction was expected.

Inside the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

As soon as he got the complete speech of Craig Ems at the press conference for the failure, Simon and Joseph Schrapp immediately began to discuss the response strategy.

Actually, there was a plan.

Everyone on the sniper list, Westeros will not ignore them completely after they are out of the election, but will continue to follow up and guard against Craig Ames's entanglement.

Because of the favors and connections accumulated during his tenure, after losing or retirement, former federal MPs will either join some companies as directors and consultants or set up political lobbying consulting companies, and will basically live a very comfortable life.

Craig Ames is 56 years old and is a young and strong among the U.S. Congressman. If it weren't for being sniped by the Westeros system, with Craig Ames' reputation in Wisconsin, there would be a high chance of re-election.

Now, since he has lost the election, this veteran politician who has served as a 12-year senator must consider the issue of future prospects.

Craig Ames is a standard low-class person. Before entering politics, he was an ordinary worker at a local chemical factory in Wisconsin. He gained fame by taking advantage of several colleagues who were injured in the factory for some reason. At the age of 32, he tried to run for state assemblyman. He then went smoothly and reached a high position in Congress.

The salary and benefits of members of Congress are very generous compared to ordinary people.

Over the years, Craig Ames has purchased real estate in his hometown in Wisconsin and Washington, and the source of funds is innocent. However, apart from the two houses, the congressman has no other excess assets and instead owes part of the mortgage to repay.

On the other hand, the MP's family of five, except for the eldest daughter, both of their youngest sons are still in college. The tuition fees for American universities are notoriously expensive, not to mention two at a time, so it will be a huge burden for Ames.

If you fail to pursue other careers after losing the election, the Ames family's standard of living will drop significantly.

Moreover, Simon also found out that because his father had been at a high position for a long time, Ames's three children were not very successful. His married daughter and son-in-law also secretly used their father's influence to earn extra money. It was not too illegal, but it was also the kind of trick that was serious and big.

The two sons who are studying in college are even more favored by many people. They are used to being arrogant and have no clean hands and feet.

These materials could have been used as materials to attack Craig Ames during the campaign, Simon quietly suppressed them.

This is the day I'm waiting for.

If Craig Emes loses the election and bites Westeros system, Simon doesn't mind settlement of the score later.

If it works properly, sending one or two people into the cell is easy.

After discussing with Joseph Schrapp, Simon personally called Paul Spetz, who was still in Wisconsin, and signaled that the other party would send some materials to the former MP tonight. After handling this matter, the West Coast election results were basically released.

The 1994 US midterm elections ended in a disastrous defeat by the Democratic Party.

In the Senate, the Democratic Party’s quota dropped from 56 seats to 47 seats, losing 9 seats at one time. This is not the 9 seats lost when all 100 senators are re-elected, but when only 34 senators change their term.

Not only that, this failure started in 1954, and lasted for 40 years, the Democratic Party lost its majority status in the Senate for the first time.

In the House of Representatives, unlike the one-third rotation in the Senate, all 434 seats in the House of Representatives were re-elected.

The Democratic Party’s failure is even more shocking.

Before the election, the Democrats had 256 seats in the House, an absolute leading majority.

As a result, in this midterm election, the Democratic Party lost as many as 52 seats, and the number of seats in the House plummeted from 256 to 204. Relatively speaking, the Republican Party increased from 178 seats to 230 seats, successfully becoming a majority party in the House of Representatives.

Not only did it control the Senate and House of Representatives in one fell swoop, but 36 of the 50 states changed their governorships, and the Democrats also ended in a crushing defeat, losing 11 states' gubernatorial seats. Overall, the Democrats, which had 29 governorship positions among the 50 states in the United States, plummeted to 18, the Republicans won as many as 30 governorship seats, and the governors of two states were taken away by third parties.

It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine what such a large-scale political change means.

However.

That night, Washington couldn't sleep all night.

Greenwich.

Simon also didn't get a rest until after one o'clock in the morning.

The Westeros system's "sniper plan" and "maintaining the basic plan" plan were all successfully concluded.

The two plans involved 45 seats in Congress, 39 achieved the goal, and only 6 seats missed. Among them, 7 senators were 6 seats in the Westeros system. 38 senators were 33.

Although the 21-slot 'sniper plan' focuses on sniping, the other party's members who benefit from it may not necessarily turn to the Westeros system completely, but it is inevitable. Therefore, after this midterm election, the Senate and House of Representatives will be nearly one-tenth of the members of Congress can speak for the Westeros system.

One-tenth of it seems not much, but it is enough to decide too many things.

In comparison, the National Rifle Association has discovered in advance, with only 18 sniper quotas.

The plan is completed smoothly, but I can't rest assured.

Next is the aftermath.

Distract the public from the attention and let the National Rifle Association be the first to go.

As for Washington.

One-tenth of the members of Congress are parties, which is a relatively least worrying aspect.

After the Democratic Party's defeat in this election, it realized the influence of money power in the election process. Even if many of its own parliamentarians were killed by the Westeros system's sniping plan, they would not dare to offend Simon, a big financial supporter.

Although the Republican Party is a victim of this sniping plan, since its own side has won, Simon has vaguely expressed some tendencies in this election. Even if it is not absolutely certain, some people will inevitably realize that winning over the Westeros system is the best choice.

The key point is to make the Westeros system avoid the subsequent public opinion vortex that follows this midterm election as much as possible.

Early the next morning, the front pages of mainstream print media were almost filled with words like "The Democratic Party's Great Democratic Party', and there were various articles that analyzed the reasons for the Democratic Party's election disastrous defeat.

Simon cannot suppress media coverage of such an important news hotspot.

However, of course, there was also interference.

The key is the aspect of "large length". The relevant reports in mainstream newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are all full-page editorial analysis. People with a slightly intensive phobia will inevitably feel numb when they see these long-term comments. Simon doesn't believe that many people can patiently read all the long-term comments on some or even several pages.

In terms of the Igret portal, the headlines are also a large-scale analysis of the results of the midterm elections.

However, following the news of the midterm elections, there are two entertainment news that are more popular among the general public.

First of all, there is news of the rehearsal of the third Victoria's Secret Show. The official specially released a large number of carefully photographed beautiful photos of the Victoria's Secret Army, beauties and editorials in advance. It is self-evident which one will readers choose.

Another entertainment news is also at the national level.

The famous American horror novelist Stephen King signed a contract with Broadcast, an online radio website owned by Egret. A large number of horror novels under Stephen King will be made into audio novels and will be listed on Broadcast for listeners to subscribe.

Broadcast, an online radio website in the original space-time, is a typical case of failure of the Internet bubble.

This time, Simon has made Broadcast more popular as a Himalayan website model in memory, and plans to be the genuine audio download platform for the iPlayer digital player released by Tinkobaier next year.

There are big differences between genuine audio, not genuine music.

Music is just music.

Audio can cover too many things, in addition to music, there are also talk shows, audio books, educational courses, etc.

Just as the operating system needs an ecosystem, for digital players, content is the key to quickly promote it.

The iPlayer digital player that Tinkobaier will release next year will have a very considerable capacity because it uses micro hard disk mode.

Relatively speaking, because the record industry is instinct to maintain the interests of traditional product sales channels, genuine online music resources will be relatively scarce in the short term. Therefore, various talk shows, audio books, educational courses, etc., especially audio books, will be a great content supplement to the promotion of digital players.

Moreover, how much time can you take to listen to a music? In comparison, a book passes in a few hours without realizing it.

This is obviously a good 'pacifier' too.

Therefore, in addition to the entry of Stephen King's novels as a promotional stunt, Broadcast will sign more works by writers in the future, and will also produce a batch of free public version of the novel audio resources.

Simon also wrote a memo to Girl C in private, reminding the other party to develop an automatic voice reading engine.

Perhaps it is not as good as the real-person reading effect, but once the automatic voice reading engine is launched, it is necessary to store a text file equivalent to one percent of the audio file in iPlayer, and the player can automatically listen to books, which will undoubtedly be another small change.

After Wednesday, early on Thursday morning, the Igret Portal joined forces with many print media to throw out another heavyweight news.

The "Information Age" marketing plan started on October 31. As of November 9, the sales volume of personal computers in various parts of the United States exceeded 500,000 Taiwan mark in just 10 days under the strong promotion of major brands.

Before that, the federal local personal computer shipments were only 460,000 units throughout October.

The "Information Age" marketing plan, which is expected to last for two months, and the end of the year is the peak sales season, the monthly shipments of personal computers in the United States are expected to reach an astonishing 1.5 million units.

Not only that, after the marketing plan was launched, the number of users connecting to the Internet in the United States also increased significantly.

At the beginning of 1994, the industry originally expected that the number of Internet access users in the United States this year would reach about 71 million and the number of Internet users was 120 million. In fact, because the Internet industry grew rapidly beyond expectations, this target data was achieved ahead of schedule by the end of October.

In the past 10 days, because American Online, AT-T and many Internet service providers that followed the trend to launch large-scale marketing plans, large-scale promotions have led to the increase in the number of Internet users in the United States reaching 1.1 million in just 10 days. After the complete two-month large-scale marketing plan, the number of Internet users in the United States is expected to increase by about 7 million.

As expected, by the end of this year, the total number of Internet users in the United States will reach 78 million and the total number of netizens will reach 140 million.

The current population of the United States is 260 million.

The 140 million Internet users mean that the penetration rate of the US Internet has officially exceeded 50%, reaching 53%, the highest in the world.

As a large number of remaining PCs have been connected to the Internet in previous years, and the proportion of Internet users has exceeded 50%, starting next year, in order to seek a better hardware experience, the updates and replacement of PCs will accelerate, and sales will continue to increase significantly, but the access speed of Internet users in the United States will inevitably slow down.

However, overall, especially around the world, new technology industries will be even more surging.

Seeing the arrival of a great era, marketing plans for the ‘Information Age’, as Simon expected, largely quickly robbed the audience of the attention of the midterm elections.

However, this political earthquake that completely changed the federal high-level power structure will never be easily overwhelmed.
Chapter completed!