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To: profile_14 who wrote (85652)	10/17/2000 4:14:19 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Wireless GPS for Compaq iPaq Pocket PCs BOSTON, Oct 17, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TeleType Co. has begun shipping a new low power PCMCIA GPS receiver designed especially for use with the popular Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. The new wireless GPS receiver allows travellers to navigate using a completely integrated device eliminating cumbersome wires. While the product has been designed especially for Windows CE devices the receiver also works on Windows laptops. The TeleType Wireless PCMCIA package includes the TeleType GPS software and street level maps for entire U.S. allowing real time position to be accurately shown. In addition, TeleType offers specialized maps for worldwide aviation, and marine navigation. The company is planning to introduce street level navigation for Europe by the end of the year. Further information: teletype.com, 1-800-717-4478, 1-617-542-6220. Product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

To: profile_14 who wrote (85652)	10/17/2000 4:45:18 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 97611

I worked at CNBC and once heard Roger Ailes make a point about how you win elections. There is no secret. Both parties have a partisan base that will ALWAYS vote for the party. It averages about 35% for each. Another 12% (each) is leaning to the party, and will LIKELY vote that way. The remaining 6% is where the battle lies. And if you follow election results, you'll see that this is roughly correct. Most elections have a less than 12 point differential between candidates. This means that you don't have to appeal to a large number of people when you are better off patronizing a smaller percentage. 2 things allowed Clinton to win the last 2 elections. 1 - he focussed on the younger voters who are less informed (a large percentage this year say they get their news from music and comedy programming) and got them to vote in slightly larger numbers. 2 - he had a 3rd party pulling 6% or more of the vote from the Republicans. Clinton never polled over 49.5% of the popular vote. In both of the last 2 elections, Republican percentages leading up to election day were undercounted by 5 points or more. Having spent time in media, there is a good reason for this - the questions tend to be loaded, and are generally biased toward slightly left causes. While it seems that you can't sway "Do you like Reps or Dems?" The fact is, you can by asking that question AFTER asking questions like "Do you support balanced budgets?" when everyone knows one party or the other supports it more... so anyone sitting on the fence tends to answer according to the way they were led. I have never finished a poll because I invariably wind up telling the pollster that their poll is biased and the questions are tilted in favor of one side or the other. They don't like to hear this.