Calling election early

[Joseph Tracy]

With well over 17 minutes to go we hate to call the election  
prematurely. BUt here is how things are shaping up short of radical  
revisionist voting
First the votes to date:

Ray Easton
)Invisible Man, 2)Ulysses, 3)Miss Lonelyhearts
Alex Colter
- 1)V 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Mumbo Jumbo
Joseph Tracy
1)Farewell My Lovely, 2)The Master and Margarita, Mumbo Jumbo
Keith
1) Ada   2)Wurlitzer- Nog 3)McCarthy- Suttree
Robin Landseadel
1) 2)and 3)Farewell My Lovely
Henry M
1. Farewell My Lovely 2. Mumbo Jumbo 3. Ulysses
Heikki R
1. The Education of Henry Adams 2). Invisible Man  3) V.
Scott Jones
1)Mumbo Jumbo, 2)Cybernetics, 3)Man Who Was Thursday
Janos S
1)V  2) The Master and Margarita 3)Ada, or Ardor
Bekah
1)V 2)Miss Lonely Hearts 3) Farewell My lovely
Emma Wrigley
1)Augie March, 2) Mumbo Jumbo 3) Farewell My Lovely
Arnoud Rommens
1)  Master and Margarita 2)Invisible Cities 3) ATD
Joe Allonby
1)2)3) The Master and Margarita
Mark Kohut
1) V  2) Invisible Man  3) Augie March
Ian L
1.) V.  2.) Invisible Man  3.) Education of Henry Adams
Robert Mahnke
1) The Master and Margarita 2)Dog of the South 3) Gringos
Laura Kelber
1)V, 2) Education of Henry Adams, 3)Invisible Man
Clement Levy
1) Farewell my Lovely 2) V. 3) The Education of Henry Adams
Jude Bloom
1) V.  2) Ulysses  3) Farewell My Lovely
Charles Albert
1) A Cool Million  2) Farewell My Lovely  3) The Man Who Was Thursday
John Carvill
1) Augie March  2) Invisible Man  3) Farewell My Lovely
alice wellintown
1. Invisible Man  2. Moby-Dick  3. The Education of Henry Adams
Jon Bon Bailey:
1. Invisible Man 2. Moby-Dick 3. V.
Tsianades Costas
123 The Master and Margarita
Michel Ryckx
1)2)3)V
Johnny Marr
1 - Swann's Way 2 - The Recognitions 3 - Wuthering Heights
David Meyer
1. Perdido Street Station 2. Against the Day 3. Ulysses
Doug Millison
1. anything by Pynchon  (V) 2. Mumbo Jumbo 3. Moby-Dick
grladams
1) Tristam Shandy 2) Bartleby the scrivener 3) Farewell My Lovely
Kai Lorentzen
A/1) Shaumschwester 2) Ioslabern 3) Ich Werde...

    USING INSTANT RUNOFF AS WELL AS I CAN FIGURE IT OUT
  1st Round Starting with 1st choice votes   Invisible Man- 3,   
V-9,   Farewell- 4 , Ada-1,  Henry A-1,  Mumbo Jumbo-1,  Augie  
March-2  M&M-4, Miss L-1

2nd&3rd rounds keeping Top 3 contenders    V- 9+ 1+ 1 = 11        
Farewell- 4+ 1+1+1+1 =8         M&M-4+0=4

		Alternatively,
FIGURING 1 PERSON, 3 VOTES and just tallying  the top vote getters  
were as follows:

Total votes  Miss L-3,   Invisible  Man-7,  V-14 , Farewell- 10,   
M&M-10 , MJ-6 ,   U-3,  Edu of HE-4

So by all rights , without a runoff Pynchon's V is the choice of the  
p-list for our next group read

We could have a run-off amongst  the top 3 votegetters- V, Farewell  
My Lovely, and The Master and Margarita. I say  we only do so if 20  
of our 28 voters respond tomorrow that they want a runoff and cast a  
vote for one of the 3. Otherwise it is V

Gimme a V!   V! Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!   V!  
Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!   V! Gimme a V!   V! .......
What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!
What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!
What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!

And so, broadcasting once again from out in the radio netherlands of  
a vast and non-existent ether, perched aboard the Inconvenience  we  
can see vast hordes of all night revelers lifting the V for victory  
sign and many of them puking their guts out.   Time once again to  
sign off, and sail on, wondering about the choices we have made and  
the possibilities of planet B.