As the weekend passed, the 1992 U.S. presidential election finally approached.
The game that has lasted for several months will finally come to a conclusion on November 3.
Although in previous support surveys, Ross Perot's support rate as an independent candidate was as high as 20%, the two-party governance structure in the United States has not changed. The results of this year's election will still be between the candidates of the two major parties. produce.
However, compared with the situation in the past many years when independent candidates could only serve as foils, Ross Perot's support rate in this US presidential election has also made both parties quite wary.
Monday went by in a blink of an eye.
In order to facilitate public voting, most universities, middle schools and primary schools in the United States will have a day off on November 3, and many companies will also give their employees half a day off.
In this election, Simon still does not plan to vote in person.
Mainly because I don’t want to be surrounded by the media, and I don’t want to cause any public opinion effects.
So Simon rushed to San Francisco the day before the election.
The Yigret portal will conduct a 24-hour online live broadcast of this election. As an event-based traffic news that can greatly increase the website's attention, the entire Yigrit company attaches great importance to it and has begun preparations one month in advance.
On Tuesday morning, Simon and his female assistant woke up in their mountain villa in Woodside before four o'clock.
According to voting management, polling stations across the United States open for voting at 6 o'clock in the morning, and the deadline is 6 o'clock in the afternoon, lasting 12 hours.
Arriving at the Igret headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, the brightly lit office building was already a busy scene.
The three giants of Igret, Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, have all appeared at the headquarters, and Bezos, who is mainly responsible for the network business, has been up all night. What the three of them care about is not only the traffic that the election itself brings to the website, but also the significance of this election. Once Clinton wins, federal domestic policies in the next few years will be very biased towards the new technology field, which will have a great impact on the Internet industry. The rise is crucial.
A group of senior executives gathered in a large open conference room with a view of the employee work area. News and data related to the election were displayed in real time on the projector.
It's still just past four o'clock on the West Coast, and it's already past seven in the morning on the East Coast. New Hampshire, the first state to start voting, has already released some advance data.
A small town called Dixville in New Hampshire opened voting for the first time. A total of 78 people voted in the town. Preliminary statistics showed that George Bush: 23 votes; Bill Clinton: 39 votes; Ross Pee Luo: 16 votes.
Bill Clinton is way ahead.
Although the voting results of one small town cannot affect the overall situation, it does not prevent the media from giving this start a different interpretation and meaning.
That's obviously a good sign for Clinton supporters.
The Eaglet Portal immediately put the Dixville Township vote in the headlines.
This is actually a kind of public opinion guidance.
You know, people are blindly obedient. After seeing the voting results in small towns, many people may change their voting preferences at a certain moment.
The U.S. presidential election is often about the accumulation of tendencies bit by bit.
Not only the Eaglet portal, but CNN TV, which also leans towards the Democratic camp, also reported the voting results in the small town of Dixville in real time.
Whether it is the old CNN or the emerging Igret portal, they are already important media platforms that cannot be ignored in the United States, and they have a strong influence on news and public opinion trends.
It just so happens that both media platforms are more powerful and real-time than traditional newspapers.
So when two major platforms simultaneously reported the voting results in the small town of Dixville, the impact quickly became apparent.
Across the Atlantic, Brent crude oil futures on the London Mercantile Exchange began to fluctuate downward.
No matter how it is defended, there is no doubt that the Bush family represents the interests of the American oil class and has largely pushed up crude oil prices.
The fall in Brent crude futures prices is undoubtedly the most direct indication that Bill Clinton is ahead in the election results of a small eastern town.
Both the Igret portal and CNN keenly grasped the fluctuations in crude oil futures prices and began to report further.
Bill Clinton, who very fashionably established an official blog on the Eaglet Portal, also quickly gave a speech of thanks for the voting results in the town of Dixville. After being officially pinned to the top of the Eaglet Portal, it attracted a large number of similar blogs. Messages of support from members of the public who followed the election online.
In just one blog post, in half an hour, the number of comments exceeded 120,000. This inevitably became a small news event, and even CNN's real-time news broadcast it.
The Bush camp will of course refute this.
However, compared to Bill Clinton, who has kept pace with the times, and because of the tendency of the Yigrit Portal during this period, the Bush camp did not open an official blog on the Yigrit Portal, so it could only communicate through a senior member of the campaign team. His personal blog refutes the Ygritte Portal and CNN for fueling the results of a small town vote.
Although this blog was pushed to the top according to the blog's popularity rules, it was not artificially pinned to the top, so naturally it received much less attention than Clinton.
As the sky lights up on the West Coast, voting opens in most states in the United States except Alaska and Hawaii.
Throughout the day, it will basically be current news from both sides of the election and comments from surrounding expert media on various issues.
After everyone had breakfast together at around seven o'clock, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz also expressed their intention to vote and would leave temporarily. Tim Berners-Lee was still a British national and did not join in the fun. , returned to the headquarters to take charge of the overall situation, Simon also followed with his female assistant, but instead of getting together with everyone again, he came to an office specially reserved for Simon at the headquarters.
He leaned back on the leather chair and read today's newspaper. After the female assistant helped him open the computer and sorted out several documents just sent by the staff, Simon reached out and took the female assistant into his arms.
Jennifer glanced at the door and felt relieved when she remembered that she had locked the door just now.
Watching Simon take off her small high heels, she curled up her legs and hid a pair of small feet in stockings. She diverted the man's attention and said: "The bill to lift the ban on telecommunications operators from getting involved in equipment manufacturing was supposed to be passed at the end of last month. Because of the matter with the Ygrit portal, this matter has been suppressed again, do you think there will be any twists and turns?"
The female assistant's figure is very slender, so although she is tall, she has an obvious clinging look when she huddles in Simon's arms.
He hugged the female assistant's light body into his arms and kissed her fair neck. Simon said: "This is the general trend. It's not just the White House. If nothing happens, the Democratic Party will control both 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 transfer of power to be completed, this matter will still pass."
Jennifer was a little itchy from the man's kiss, so she shrank her neck, moved her face closer, and said, "But, I think it's not that simple."
It is indeed not that simple. Even if George Bush steps down this time, the Bush family's deep-rooted influence in American politics will not dissipate.
However, the so-called politics is nothing more than games.
When we clearly have the advantage, it would be too incompetent if we are still unable to pass a bill that the entire industry is very inclined to lift.
Especially Bill Clinton.
This time he successfully entered the White House, and both Hollywood and Silicon Valley gave him great support.
If he cannot deliver the benefits that these supporters deserve after taking office, it will be impossible for the president to be re-elected or even to continue to maintain his influence in politics after his term ends.
In this regard, according to Simon's memories of his previous life, Clinton is also a very trustworthy person.
While the two were chatting, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The female assistant was startled and jumped out of Simon's arms like a bunny. Then she remembered that she was not wearing shoes.
She glared at the man angrily, found her shoes, put them on, straightened her clothes, and ran to open the door.
The person coming was Claire Gein, and behind Girl C was another little tail named Jennifer.
Girl C did not show any abnormality because of the blush 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 slight embarrassment just now, the female assistant took the initiative to prepare coffee.
The petite Jennifer Bray followed the female assistant's figure out of the office with her eyes, and then withdrew her attention and fell on the man in front of her.
Although she looks restrained and well-behaved on the surface, little Jenny's beautiful blue eyes still have the same little enthusiasm when she rushed to the stage of Madonna's concert and rushed towards the figure of a man.
It's like being poisoned.
Every time she thinks about the opportunity to be by his side every day in the future, Jennifer Bray is so excited that she loses sleep.
However, she is also a very smart girl.
Understand that if you act too enthusiastically, it may backfire.
Therefore, now she no longer looks like one of his groupies. Of course, everything about him can be seen everywhere in the bedroom of her apartment, and it still shows a lot of things, but she will never open it to others. own bedroom.
Well, except him.
Facing the man in front of her at this time, the girl couldn't help but be distracted.
I can't help but think about what he and the other Jenny did in the office just now. It was obviously a very intimate thing, and whether I will be able to do the same in the future.
Then some uncontrollable emotions emerged involuntarily.
After glancing at him a few times, this emotion became even more intense.
Simon looked helplessly at the rosy-cheeked little girl in front of him. He chatted with Girl C for a while about Tinker Bayer, and finally couldn't help but wink at her.
Claire noticed the reaction of the girl next to her, which was also a little funny.
Although the girl usually hides it very well, as an equally smart woman, Claire can certainly see through the little girl's true nature.
I just didn't expect that the girl would suddenly reveal her secret at this time.
The office door was pushed open again at this time, and the female assistant walked in with coffee. For some reasons, Girl C didn't want the assistant to see what little Jenny looked like at this time, so she reached out and pinched the girl's waist, He reached her ear and said, "Jane, you'd better go wash your face."
Being pinched by Girl C, it hurt a little. Jennifer Brie reacted immediately and stood up shyly and said: "Hug, I'm sorry, I have to go to the bathroom."
After saying that, he stood up and trotted out from the other side of the sofa.
The female assistant carefully held the coffee in her hand. When she saw the little girl leaving in a hurry, she didn't notice the blush on her face, so she was just curious and didn't ask any more questions. She put the tray on the coffee table and started to distribute coffee to everyone.
Little Jenny is back again and everything is back to normal.
However, when he saw the female assistant sitting next to him openly, he couldn't help but feel envious in his heart.
Everyone talked about the Tinker Bayer Company and paid attention to the progress of the election from time to time. Time also flew by.
This continues 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 in some states on the east coast has ended within one hour, and the voting results have basically been released.
At 7:08 East Coast time, Indiana, which is biased towards the headquarters of the United States, was the first to announce its statistical results. George Bush won and won the first 12 electoral votes.
Indiana is adjacent to the Great Lakes and is a long-established heavy industrial area in the United States. With the decline of the American automobile industry and the continued economic downturn, Indiana is known as the Rust Belt. This is also a traditional vote base for the Republican camp.
The Bush camp won the first battle, but the excitement lasted only three minutes.
At 7:11, the news came again. The New Hampshire vote results were released. This time, Bill Clinton won and won his first 4 electoral votes.
However, subsequently, a series of eastern states and counties announced their election results, and Bill Clinton, who had failed to get off to a good start, fought back.
Maine, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware…
Almost all of New England, where votes were opened earlier, went to Bill Clinton. However, in the last election, George Bush had an absolute advantage in New England.
Immediately afterwards, George Bush once again moved back to many disadvantages in the eastern and southern states. In addition to Georgia, the traditional southern vote base of the Republican Party, Florida, Alabama, etc., George Bush successfully won.
However, the southeastern states have become George Bush's only advantage.
The debacle began in the Rust Belt where George Bush got off to a good start.
For several weeks in the Great Lakes region, the last election was still red, but this time, Indiana became the only red state. Others, such as Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan, etc., all turned from red to blue.
When the Eastern Conference count ended, Bill Clinton had an overwhelming advantage.
Finally, around early morning West Coast time, all statistical results were released for all states and counties in the United States, including Hawaii.
Bill Clinton won the 52nd U.S. presidential election with an absolute advantage of 370 to 163 and successfully ascended to the White House.