The Captain and his friends all voted in the American presidential election last week (or longer ago) by mail (and some ex pats voted by email, all depending on the state in which you are registered).
We woke this morning with a European world of eyes, all watching and waiting for election day excitement...but our home continent was still sleeping! Braced for election day, our morning news had no more to say than last night's news. We reached lunch time before the polls even opened in New York. And now, school day's end for the Captain here in London, Californians have only just begun their days.
This is one of the peculiar events where time zones matter enormously.
Election coverage begins on BBC and other television stations tonight at 11:45 p.m. GMT and will continue until 6 a.m. Of course, Californians won't have gone to bed by then....
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