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# Tuesday night's fine for electin'
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/11/tuesday_nights_fine_for_electin/
- Published: 2012-11-06T11:55:02.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:47:55.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Politics

Four years ago, on US election night, I was at The Frontline Club, [enjoying their election party](dhisblog.com/archives/2008/11/us%5Felection%5Fnight%5Fat%5Fthe%5Ffront.html). Tonight? Keeping up via the interwebs from my mother-in-law’s front room. Oh, and it’s my birthday, too. I know how to live.

I’m pulling in information from a variety of sources, but one which is consistently throwing up quirky stories – like [the sudden outbreak of Brits Googling “electoral college”](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/06/british-web-users-furiously-googling-electoral-college/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – is Maarten’s [Trendolizer](http://www.trendolizer.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

![The Trendolizer](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/trendy.jpg?resize=650%2C468)Not quite sure how he’s doing it, as it involves [Perl jiggery-pokery](http://www.movabletips.com/2012/11/movable-type-powered-trendolizer-ready-for-the-us-elections.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), but it’s surfacing interesting, timely stuff, and what more can you ask for?

In my case, “a raid on my mother-in-law’s whisky supply” might be the answer…