BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : NOVEMBER 27, 2000 ISSUE
COVER STORY Where the Votes Are Under the popular vote system, candidates would concentrate on densely populated urban areas and regions studded with cities and suburbs--while ignoring wide swaths of the country. About 50% of the population lives in these areas. PACIFIC NORTHWEST 5.3 MILLION NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 8.8 MILLION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 18.1 MILLION WESTERN CITIES: SALT LAKE CITY, DENVER, LAS VEGAS, PHOENIX 7.6 MILLION TEXAS 12.3 MILLION GREAT LAKES 26.2 MILLION NEW ENGLAND 8.2 MILLION NEW YORK AREA 19.9 MILLION MID-ATLANTIC 10.5 MILLION I-85 CORRIDOR 8.5 MILLION FLORDIA 11.6 MILLION DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, CENUS DATA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS The Economy: Passing a Dimmer Torch COVER IMAGE: The New President's Economy CHART: Growth Slows...As Tech Demand Weakens...Manufacturing Dips... CHART: ...The Stock Market Declines...The Trade Gap Explodes...And Corporate Debt Surges TABLE: Turbulence Ahead The Alan Greenspan of OPEC? CHART: Fill 'Er Up Can the Market Regain Its Balance? CHART: Scaling Back Expectations CHART: Losing the Investor Vote TABLE: The View from Four Wall Street Gurus Commentary: The Pitfalls of One Person, One Vote TABLE: Where the Votes Are TABLE: No Electoral College Sleight of Hand at the Polls TABLE: Tricks of the Trade Is There Any Help for the ``Hanging Chad''? Commentary: The Young and the (Still) Listless INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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