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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (21107)	11/30/2000 8:31:09 AM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> You can't blame everything on the election mess. Of course he can. People are blaming everything and anything on whatever candidate for whom they did not vote. It's called the "bias effect".     -JC

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (21107)	11/30/2000 10:43:27 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Maybe I'm not getting the irony here but do you honestly think so? Why would anyone not buy a new PC for Christmas because the election isn't decided yet? This doesn't make any sense. You can't blame everything on the election mess." There is no irony. I really believe people are so glued to the election or are scared of a slowdown because of it, that they haven't started looking for big ticket items yet. Didn't Gateway say holiday sales were slow...well here in the USA, the holidays started about a week ago...right after thanksgiving...So Gateway must really see some dead sales to make a statement like that... Didn't the same thing happen in Europe about the time the gas crisis hit a few months ago and the truckers struck and blocked the highways... Jim