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[elainegrey]

Up at the crack of dawn -- 3:43 -- this morning due to install issues. It is 6:32, and i think we have sorted out the second issue, now testing. And done, three hours later.

Oh bah.

While we were waiting -- so much waiting in the debugging process for other folks to do things like bounce services.... -- i read some things. This opinion about the current US federal process, while disheartening, seems realistic.

From Electoral-Vote.com:

Very few people see that the root cause of the problem is that the country is so evenly divided and the parties are so far apart. In the 1930s, the country was also bitterly divided and the parties were far apart but the Democrats had such a big majority that Roosevelt just rammed everything he wanted through Congress without bothering to even consult the Republicans. During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan pretty much got whatever he wanted from a compliant Congress. It is almost certain that neither party is going to win big on Tuesday and neither one will have a mandate to do anything. In fact, at this point, the most likely outcome is that Obama squeaks through with a small win in the electoral college, with the popular vote being close to a tie, the Democrats keep the Senate with a majority of a couple of seats, and the Republicans continue to run the House, possibly with a slightly reduced majority. We will have taken a year, spent $6 billion, and nothing will have changed. And all the people who wonder why the politicians don't do anything will continue to wonder.