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>From: "Glen Bleske" 
>Date: 7 Nov 1996 09:05:26 U
>Subject: re: about last night

>My questions are who made these 50 million hits at CNN? And what were their
>motivations? 
>
>A little more than 100 million people voted. Clearly, many of the hits must be
>from non-voters.

Some of us were non-US citizens who take an interest :-)

seriously, I was watching ABC on a local cable channel here in Cambridge
England while
checking the CNN website.  I was online until 0300 GMT so probably accounted
for a
good few thousand of CNN's hits!

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