How strange that you, of all of us, would prove to be the most hopeful.

I am in authorized possession of an authentic Florida absentee ballot. Two thoughts on this:

1) Bidding is open.

2) I’m struggling to strike a balance between sending it in too late to be counted by nonlawyers, and sending it in early and risking that something would happen to change my mind in the interim. I worry more about the latter. What if, late in the game, one of the candidates is revealed to have a seven-figure gambling habit, or keep a travelling orgy, or to have once killed a man barehanded outside a bar, or some other such scandalous behavior? Something awesome like that would definitely sway me strongly — I, in the manner of Cal Naughton Jr., like my President to party — and I don’t want to have an October Surprise make me feel like I wasted my vote on some tedious careerist chump.

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