Olympian
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Hello,
In the Yahoo News story Analysis: Why Mitt Romney may have taken so long to concede, it says:
Political campaigns these days live or die by the analytics, and PBS pointed out the marine metaphors carried over to the Obama camp, which nicknamed its process Dreamcatcher and Narwhal, and then shifted to a vote-tracking system named—of all things—Gordon.
I don't understand why it says 'of all things' here. I don't understand if 'Gordon' has anything to do with the marine metaphors, but even if it does, still it is not clear why it says 'of all things'.
Thank you
In the Yahoo News story Analysis: Why Mitt Romney may have taken so long to concede, it says:
Political campaigns these days live or die by the analytics, and PBS pointed out the marine metaphors carried over to the Obama camp, which nicknamed its process Dreamcatcher and Narwhal, and then shifted to a vote-tracking system named—of all things—Gordon.
I don't understand why it says 'of all things' here. I don't understand if 'Gordon' has anything to do with the marine metaphors, but even if it does, still it is not clear why it says 'of all things'.
Thank you