Mac help in London
Yesterday I got my Mac RAM fiddled with by the guys at MR Systems who did a cracking job at making sure it worked all right. They also told me that there is something Apple will replace under warranty that is wearing faster than it should. In short they know their Macs, are friendly and do good work. They are located on Liverpool Road near Highbury & Islington station and have rather good prices on Macs and accesories.
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It is amazing how little that British press people understand how the American government operates. They are all claiming that Bush has been defeated and will be powerless. Um the US has the seperation of powers and is elected seperated from the two houses. Secondly the party in power tends to get hammered in the mid-terms. If the Democrats do not take the Senate then it is not even close to a wipe-out. It will surprise no one to find out that one of the few organisations that has a clue about US politics is 18 Doughty Street. Much of it down to Donal Blaney who is quite au fait with the whole thing.
Once you tire of the ignorant pronouncements head on over to Guns N Butter and have a larf.
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Of the World’s Biggest Public Sector in the game Nationstates.
Comments are off for this postWell a bit of good news…for me…I am doing 18 Doughty Street
Might not outweigh the fact that cretin Pelosi is Speaker of the House but…
I am doing 18 Doughty Street this evening doing the newspapers overview between 11 & 12 tonight (6 to 7pm est). I suspect that we will discuss the US election results a bit. You can assume there won’t be gloating tonight as there will be in other bits of the British media.
Update: Nice to see that the BBC is showing its unbiased nature. Jane Little is right now gloating on the Daily Politics.
Dizzy thinks that 18DS has gotten its first scalp…you be the judge. Fascinating in the light of the exchange a few weeks ago where a standing Tory MP trashed Donal Blaney as far right because he supports low taxes.
Oh and Hitch is spot on…been saying similar things all morning.
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Tuesday night’s politics
Whoops. Virginia just flipped to Webb. Montana isn’t reporting in any great depth yet. Even if the Demos take both of those, though, I’m predicting that Missouri and Tennessee hold. Which would leave the Senate as a tie, with Dick Cheney casting the tie-breaking vote. I am guessing that that wouldn’t be the favorite part of his duties. I don’t think he suffers fools gladly.
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So. A defeat for the Republicans, but at best a minor victory for the Democrats. Jeff Greenfield just pointed out on CNN that this was the first time since the Senate was elected by popular vote (1924?) that the party which lost one house of Congress didn’t also lose the other.
Not what I’d like to have seen, but not an unthinkable result. If Pelosi, et. al. take it as a mandate to go wild with impeachment motions, ultimatims on Iraq, etc., so much the better. They’ll pay for it in 2008.
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All over for the Senate. Allen looks like he’ll take Kentucky Virginia (I’m always getting those mixed up for some reason); Corker wins in Tennessee. Missouri heavily leaning to Talent.
House: 124 Rep. 144 Dem. Certainly the MSM prediction of a Democratic wave sweeping aside the Republicans isn’t going to happen; but it looks like they’ll win the House, with a small majority, I’m guessing.
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One of the difficulties for a foreign observer in this type of election is that, as Tip O’Neill famously observed, “all politics is local.” It’s possible to generalize the mood of the nation in a Presidential race; much more difficult to analyze how it will play out in 435 Congressional districts and 30-odd Senate races.
Speaking of which: House Rep. 56 Dem. 63. Senate Rep. 44 Dem. 41. Gov.—didn’t quite catch the number, but the Democrats seem comfortably ahead.
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Mind you, there’s a couple of hockey games tonight, so my attention might be divided. Priorities, people, priorities.
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I hadn’t planned to liveblog the elections, and I probably won’t have a lot to say about them, but I thought I’d keep a page open in case I have any thoughts. Hey, it’s been known to happen.
I remain steadfast to my optimistic prediction of a few days ago. Right now CNN shows Republicans 22 Democrats 32 for the House; Rep 42 Dem 30 in the Senate. Governators—Rep. 7 Dem. 12.
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