according to the maths

a certain candidate should win today. i'm not talking about in terms of electoral votes and adding up pa plus nh plus wi plus nc and such. see, i can add, i can subtract, divide and multiply. what i cannot do is calculus.

anyway, that is off topic. i don't, praise be, have to take a calculus exam, except perhaps in my recurring stress dream.

that said, here's what i'm talking about. this is the sixth presidential election i have ever voted in (so, you can generally figure out my age). and according to how i've voted -- well the guy i voted for won twice out of the five times so far. that is, two times so far the fella i wanted to become president in fact became president (and really, it was the same guy in two elections, so does that count as one or two, are we getting now into fractions? or per cents? those decimals trip me up).

by the rule of 'evens' (you know, when you look over one shoulder and then have to look over the other, else you feel lopsided), my guy should win today, so that i will have won (oops, i had written one, not won, which is a math/language snafu or maybe inadvertent secret code) exactly half, so far, of the presidential elections i have voted in.

makes sense, oui?