Thanks guys. Way to go, helluva job your conscience was doing.

Terry: George Allen, isn't it? And a telling example of the results you get from self-indulgent protest vote/sending a message/voting your conscience/"no difference between the mainstream parties" political theories.

It looks to me like it's getting thrown to a recount.

THN: Shannon Chamberlain, Edward Oleander, it's surely possible to disagree with Scraps without calling him "undereducated".

Umm, Teresa, I was supporting Scraps... I think the re-election of Pawlenty in Minnesota today was a perfect real-world example of his logic in action. I agreed with his posts and DO NOT consider them un- or under-educated in ANY way. It was Shannon's (il)logic I was taking issue with... To me, her later post (#206) shows that she still is stretching Scraps' point well beyond it's reasonable premise and into an illogical zone that distorts what I believe he meant.

Update: It's pretty clear now that the Antichrist-in-waiting won re-election. He is coming on stage to make his victory speech as I type...

In other local races the Democrats were running people that we know are corrupt. In my state they were running a guy who handed state contracting deals to his friends at inflated costs. So I had to just not vote in those. The Democrats have an advantage now because many people are fed up with the war and the economy. But the Democrats have to capitalize on that by running good, decent candidates who can speak in public and garner good will. It's not enough to run people whose only recommendation is "at least he's not a Republican."

That said, I did have to vote Democrat in all the important races, because of the war and all the lives lost and international good will squandered. I just wish I didn't feel like puking after my vote. There are some decent people out there, I just know it, the Democrats have an obligation to find them and run them.