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USA Election from Birmingham

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 at 12:08 am Written by:

Somehow fate has led me to spend the night of the 2012 USA election in some crappy hotel on in the centre of Birmingham airport, rather than at an all night election party (not that I could find any). The £1 I just spent at the desk for a spare toothbrush was the best thing all day. I was drafted to be on the ScraperWiki stand at the EHI trade show today and tomorrow where I can witness the closed-source profitably defective UK health IT industry in its full self-sustaining glory, and be denied the free lunch because I only have an exhibitor’s pass. Humph! I’m not coming here again.

So the election is going to be close. Between the Bradley effect and the stolen votes (a corruption for they have worked so hard on for so many years) it can still credibly be won by Romney, who shouldn’t be scoring more than 10% if people voted according to their actual self-interests. You have to look on the bright side: eventually they will cut taxes so far they will be forced to rationalize the size of their military. Nothing else is going to do it — and war is the institution we invented taxes for.

Here is a scan of an absentee ballot, just to show what kind of choice is available to New Jerseyans.

I’ll wake up in the morning at some point, spend another day baffled, get home in time to play octopush, and fit in some real work after that

2 Comments

  • 1. Graeme replies at 8th November 2012, 8:40 am :

    Iscar had an event on in Birmingham yesterday. you should have blagged your way on the guest list.

  • 2. USA Election from Birming&hellip replies at 11th November 2012, 10:01 am :

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