and is anyone has/gets this game, we are so competing.

Okay, so occasionally, Mum is awesome.

She bought me, as a present for finishing Summer Math, Politcal Machine 2008, a PC game in which you play bobblehead candidates and run a general election to become president. It may look dumb, but it is addictive and ridiculously fun.

I made my Democrat candidate, Lucy Zephyr, and my first battle was against Ulysses S. Grant. It took an hour to get the hang of it, but after I did, I eeked out a victory thanks to offsetting his getting Florida but turning the upper Midwest blue with my stance on Iraq and gas prices. Oh, and maybe I used some smear merchants (they look like Al Franken! It's so cute!) to take him down.

Then I went against Nixon, earned the love of America with numerous appearances on the Coldcut Repetoire and the O'Maley Sector after having Tim Gunn make me up all pretty. I took the election with a fucking landslide, more than 350 electoral votes. It really pays to, first thing, go into Texas and set up a team, use Obama as running mate rather than Gore, and give up on getting North Carolina.

So, in short: Political Machine 2008 rocks. I am so in love with.

EXCEPT TEDDY ROOSEVELT, WHO IS A BASTARD. ALL MY LEFTY ENDORSMENTS LOSE ME STATES. GAAAAH!

-Luce