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To: scott_jiminez who wrote (46215)	5/4/2001 11:59:51 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

" In any event, the important line from the article was, 'It would also require that ballots in extremely close elections be recounted by hand — the very practice that Florida election officials and the Bush campaign had opposed so fiercely last year in their battle with Democrats." Big different between recounting ballots and punch cards with indentations, hanging junk, multiple marks etc. If an x appears in the box and it wasnt counted we can correct it. How was one to correct the Florida ballots? You are beating a dead horse. The Florida results will always be in dispute but a result was needed and that is the way it is. If the SC had ruled the other way, maybe gore wins, probably not and the torture would have gone on for weeks, maybe months and the one of them would have won by one vote. . What a mess that would have been. By ruling the way they did we got a president on time. At least clinton didnt get impeached so you won that one.

To: scott_jiminez who wrote (46215)	5/4/2001 12:50:10 PM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

For the first time, I am hearing aggressive advertising of HDTV on the radio. I argued with one person who thought we didn't need it and pointed out that both his father and I argued some 25 yrs ago, no one needed car airconditioning. In addition, an article in the NY Times pointed out that both SONY and MS will vie heavily for the playstation market. The article stated that they were determined to expand the market. Pentium lll's will be used in the MS X-station (I believe). Both digital radio and navigational devices are increasing sales. In fact, navigational devices are standard in some luxury cars.Finally, both the new pentium 4's , being heavily discounted, and the new version of Windows, which I hear good things about, may stimulate an upsurge in computer sales. To me, it is not as bleak as I thought a month ago. fred