The voting process for the midterm elections is similar to that of the presidential election, except that this time there is no need for a national count.
Simon left Manhattan and rushed to Greenwich in the afternoon to join Joseph Schlapp and began to pay attention to the election information coming from various states.
As usual, the Yigrit portal conducted a full live broadcast of the mid-term election.
Although it is only in the form of pictures and texts, it 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, Igret's gradually established media network across the United States has also become an indirect intelligence system for the Westeros system. Through a team of reporters distributed across the Commonwealth, Simon can get all the information he needs in a timely manner at his Greenwich estate.
The election results were coming in just after 6 p.m. Eastern time.
The main layout of the Westeros system is in the densely populated areas on the east and west coasts. Therefore, the results of the first batch of relevant parliamentary elections on the east coast were quickly spread to the manors in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.
On the sniper list, Connecticut Congressman David Merloth, who ranked second only to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Craig Ames, was defeated first. This Congressman who also belongs to the Democratic camp was defeated because he was Hearst. The family's hardcore has become the focus of this sniper plan.
Although David Merloth quietly came to persuade him after the collapse of the Hearst family mansion, Simon did not let him go.
If David Merloth had not strongly encouraged the House of Representatives to set up a special investigation committee in the first half of the year to conduct an antitrust investigation into the Westeros system, there would not have been a formal case filed by the Department of Justice against the three giants of Cisco-AOL-Igret.
After causing losses, there is no such thing as a good thing in the world.
In the final election result, David Melos was defeated by his opponent with a disparity of 33% to 67% of the votes in his constituency.
Around 8:30, the results of the Wisconsin election came in.
Democratic Senator Craig Ames, who ranked first on the sniper list, lost the election, with a vote rate of 39% to 61%, which was also a disastrous defeat.
Unwilling to fail, Craig Ames immediately launched an attack on the Westeros system after the election results came out, claiming that the election had been rigged, and loudly called on Congress to investigate the shady election of Wisconsin senators.
Just as there are inevitable rumors flying around after a presidential election, Craig Ames's reaction was also expected.
In a manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.
Immediately obtaining the complete content of Craig Ames' speech at the press conference on defeat, Simon and Joseph Schlapp immediately began to discuss response strategies.
In fact, there was already a plan.
For everyone on the sniper list, the Westeros system will not completely ignore them after they lose the selection, but will continue to follow up to guard against Craig Ames's endless entanglement.
Because of the connections and connections they accumulated while in office, after losing the election or retiring, former federal members of Congress will either join some companies as board consultants or set up political lobbying consulting companies, and basically live a very prosperous life.
Craig Ames is 56 years old. He is a young and powerful member of the U.S. Congress. If he had not been attacked by the Westeros system, Craig Ames would have been re-elected based on his reputation in Wisconsin. The odds are high.
Now that he has lost the election, this veteran politician who has served as a senator in Congress for 12 years must definitely consider his options.
Craig Ames comes from a standard lower-class background. Before entering politics, he was an ordinary worker at a local chemical factory in Wisconsin. He gained fame by standing up for several colleagues who were injured in the factory. At the age of 32, he tried to run for state assembly, and everything went smoothly thereafter. , has been a high-ranking senator in Congress.
The salary package of members of Congress is very generous compared to ordinary people.
Over the years, Craig Ames has purchased properties in his hometown in Wisconsin and in Washington, D.C., and the source of his funds is innocent. However, apart from the two houses, the congressman has no other excess assets. Instead, he still owes part of the mortgage loan that needs to be repaid.
On the other hand, this congressman has a family of five. In addition to his eldest daughter, his two younger sons are still in college. American college tuition is notoriously expensive, let alone two at a time. Therefore, Ames will be a A big burden.
If they don't pursue some other career after losing the election, the Eames family's standard of living will drop significantly.
Moreover, Simon also found out that because their father has been in a high position for a long time, none of Ames' three children are very successful. The married daughter and son-in-law also secretly use their father's influence to make extra money, which is not too illegal. , but it also belongs to the kind of sideline that is really a big deal.
The two sons who are studying in college are the targets of many people's fawning. They are used to being public and their hands and feet are not clean.
These could have been used to attack Craig Ames during the campaign, but Simon quietly suppressed them.
This is the day I have been waiting for.
Simon doesn't mind settling the score later if Craig Eames clings to the Westeros system after being undrafted.
When it works properly, getting one or two people into a cell is a breeze.
After discussing with Joseph Schlapp, Simon personally called Paul Spaihts, who was still sitting in Wisconsin, and told him to send certain materials to the former congressman tonight. After handling this matter, the West Coast elections The results are basically out.
The 1994 U.S. midterm elections ended in a crushing defeat for the Democratic Party.
In the Senate, the number of Democratic members dropped from 56 to 47, losing 9 seats at once. This is not the 9 seats lost if all 100 senators are re-elected, but the 9 seats lost if only 34 senators are re-elected.
Not only that, this failure was the first time in 40 years since 1954 that the Democratic Party lost its majority position in the Senate.
In the House of Representatives, unlike the one-third rotation in the Senate, all 434 House of Representatives seats will be re-elected.
The Democratic Party's defeat was even more shocking.
Before the election, the Democratic Party held 256 seats in the House of Representatives, an absolute majority.
As a result, in this midterm election, the Democratic Party lost as many as 52 seats in the House of Representatives, and the number of seats in the House of Representatives plummeted from 256 to 204. Relatively speaking, the Republican Party increased its seats from the previous 178 seats to 230 seats, successfully becoming the majority party in the House of Representatives.
Not only did they control the House and Senate in one fell swoop, the governors of 36 of the 50 states changed. The Democratic Party also ended in a disastrous defeat, losing the governorship seats in 11 states. Taken together, the majority of the Democratic Party's original 29 governorships in the 50 states in the United States has plummeted to 18. The Republican Party has won as many as 30 governorship seats. In addition, the governors of two states were taken away by third parties.
It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine what such a large-scale change in the political landscape means.
However.
That night, Washington stayed up all night.
Greenich.
Simon also didn't get any rest until after one o'clock in the morning.
The Westeros system's 'sniper plan' and 'basic maintenance' plan were all successfully concluded.
The two plans involved a total of 45 parliamentary seats, 39 achieved their goals, and only 6 seats were missed. Among them, there are 7 senators, and the Westeros system won 6 seats. Of the 38 seats in the House of Representatives, the Westeros system won 33.
Although the 21-place 'Sniper Plan' focuses on sniping, the members of the other party who benefit from it may not necessarily completely switch to the Westeros system, but appreciation is inevitable. Therefore, after this mid-term election, nearly one-tenth of the members of Congress in both houses of Congress can speak for the Westeros system.
One-tenth may not seem like much, but it is enough to decide many things.
In comparison, only 18 of the National Rifle Association's 23 sniper quotas were discovered in advance.
The plan was successfully completed, but you can't sit back and relax.
Next comes the aftermath.
Divert public attention while giving the NRA the spotlight.
As for Washington.
One-tenth of the members of Congress are involved, which is relatively speaking the least need to worry about.
After the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in this election, they realized the influence of money in the election process. Even if many of their own members were killed by the Westeros system's sniper plan, they did not dare to offend Simon, a big donor.
Although the Republican Party is the victim of this sniper plan, now that its side has won the victory, Simon has vaguely revealed some tendencies in this election. Even if it is not absolutely certain, someone will definitely be aware of wooing Weiss. The Tello system is the best choice.
The key point is to allow the Westeros system to avoid as much as possible the whirlpool of public opinion that follows this mid-term election.
Early the next morning, the front pages of mainstream print media were almost full of words like 'Democratic Party's Great Rout', accompanied by various large-length articles analyzing the reasons for the Democratic Party's electoral defeat.
It is impossible for Simon to suppress the media from reporting on such an important news hotspot.
But of course there was interference.
The key lies in the aspect of "large length". Relevant reports in mainstream newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are full-page editorial analyses. People with a little trypophobia will inevitably read these long articles. His scalp was numb, and Simon didn't believe how many people could have the patience to read all the long articles, which were sometimes even several pages long.
On the Igret portal, the headline news is also a lengthy analysis of the midterm election results.
However, right after the midterm election news, there are two entertainment news that are more popular with the general public.
First of all, there is news about the rehearsal of the third Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The official released a large number of carefully shot photos of the Victoria's Secret Army in advance, beauties and editorials. It is self-evident which one the readers will choose.
Another piece of entertainment news is also of national level.
The famous American horror novelist Stephen King has signed a contract with Broadcast, an online radio station owned by Igret. A large number of Stephen King's horror novels will be produced into audio novels and put on Broadcast for listeners to subscribe.
Broadcast, an online radio station in the original time and space, is a typical failure case of the Internet bubble.
This time, Simon will build Broadcast more into the model of the Himalayan website in memory, and also plans to use it as a genuine audio download platform for the iPlayer digital player released by Tinco Bayer next year.
Genuine audio, not genuine music, the difference is huge.
Music is just music.
Audio can cover so many things. In addition to music, there are also talk shows, audio books, educational courses, etc.
Just like an operating system needs an ecosystem, for digital players, if they want to be promoted quickly, content is the key.
The iPlayer digital player that Tinker Bayer will release next year will have a very considerable capacity due to its micro hard drive mode.
Relatively speaking, due to the record industry's instinct to safeguard 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 not be suitable for digital playback. The promotion of the device will be a great content supplement.
Moreover, compared to how long it takes to listen to a piece of music, a few hours pass by without even realizing it when reading a book.
This apparently makes a good 'pacifier' too.
Therefore, in addition to the Stephen King novels that have been promoted as publicity stunts, Broadcast will sign more writers' works in the future, and will also produce a batch of free audio resources of public version novels.
Simon also wrote a memo to Girl C privately, reminding her to develop an automatic voice reading engine.
It may not be as good as real people reading, but once the automatic voice reading engine is launched, you only need to store a text file equivalent to one percent of the audio file in iPlayer, and the player can automatically listen to books. This will undoubtedly be Another small change.
After Wednesday, early on Thursday morning, the Igret portal, together with many print media, once again released a heavyweight news.
The 'Information Age' marketing plan was launched on October 31. As of November 9, personal computer sales across the United States exceeded the 500,000-unit mark in just 10 days due to strong promotions from major brands.
Prior to this, throughout October, the federal domestic PC shipments were only 460,000 units.
The 'Information Age' marketing plan is expected to last for two months, coupled with the peak sales season at the end of the year, 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 accessing the Internet across 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 would be 120 million. In fact, due to the faster-than-expected growth of the Internet industry, this target data was achieved ahead of schedule at the end of October.
In the past 10 days, due to the joint efforts of AOL, AT-T and many Internet service providers who have followed suit and launched large-scale marketing plans, large-scale promotional activities have brought the number of U.S. Internet users to 1.1 million in just 10 days. After completing the two-month large-scale marketing plan, the number of Internet access users in the United States is expected to increase by about 7 million.
Not surprisingly, 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 Internet users will be 140 million.
The current population of the United States is 260 million.
The number of 140 million Internet users means that the penetration rate of the Internet in the United States has officially exceeded 50%, reaching 53%, the highest in the world.
As a large number of remaining PCs from previous years are gradually connected to the Internet, and the proportion of Internet access users exceeds 50%, starting from next year, in order to seek a better hardware experience, the upgrading of PCs will accelerate, and sales will continue to grow significantly. Internet user access speeds are inevitably slowing down.
However, overall, especially globally, the new technology industry will become more turbulent.
Seeing the arrival of a big era, marketing plans related to the 'information age', as Simon predicted, quickly took away the audience's attention from the mid-term elections to a large extent.
However, this political earthquake that completely changed the high-level power structure of the federation cannot be easily overshadowed.