The election

I haven’t written much of anything on the election because frankly the Democrats’ chances are pretty awful. The GOP has the base revved up, framing this race as a chance to take President Obama down a peg. Bob McDonnell has successfully portrayed himself as a moderate pragmatist while being anything but and Creigh Deeds has run about as flat and unimaginative a campaign as one can without actually doing anything to disqualify one’s self. Seriously, Deeds has been about as inspiring as my deck furniture. All those factors have hurt the down ticket races as well. How else can one explain why an absolute nut like Ken Cuccinelli is beating Steve Shannon for Attorney General? So I am fairly confident, depressing as it is, that we are looking at a Republican sweep. That being the case, there’s not much else to say. Though I wish it were otherwise, the good guys are probably going to get smoked tomorrow.