I'm looking forward to the contest, too!

I read yesterday's post and actually understood it perfectly but got somehow sidetracked and didn't get it answered. I'll touch on that today.

1+1=0 is a fairly well known mathpolitics equation, but at the risk of screwing up a future lesson I would suggest that the converse isn't necessarily true. 1-1=x x can either be 2 or a very large number but can not equal 0. How could you have an election if you subtracted one candidate and got zero? Doesn't even make any sense.

Nine is indeed a huge number particularly when it is expressed as 6+3. It looks to me right now like the 6 side isn't going to even get to that stage because to get there a lower court has to screw a ruling up to even let the magnificent Rudy take a whack at the chalk board with his math.

Oh, I just thought of another instance of 1+1=0. Martha McSally has been beaten twice. She ran for Jeff Flake's seat and lost to the woman she called a 'Prada Socialist'. This time as the incumbent serving out the remaining bit of John McCain's term she lost again to Mr. Gabby Giffords. So 1 race for a vacant seat, 1 race to defend a seat = 0 terms for McSally.