So, I was happy Tuesday night, and even happier Wednesday morning. People voted, they took an interest in the outcome of their local elections. Some of the candidates I supported won (8 out of 13), some lost (3) and two are still undecided (Burner in WA, Trauner in WY).

While some hope that the GOP will somehow learn a "lesson" from the election, personally I doubt it. This is a party which demonized the 49.9998% of the country who voted for the "other guy" for the past six years, who gloated about disregarding rules in Congress when it suited them, who treated the Constitution as a nuisance rather than a binding law, who passed a law which makes it legal for the President to strip any citizen of all civil rights and liberties without recourse to judicial review.

I wonder what the position of Republicans in the Senate will be on the filibuster now?

Here's my tote-board from my ActBlue page. I've reset the page for the next cycle. I would like to place an early bet on a Richardson/Obama ticket but neither is raising money yet.

My one request to all the candidates and PACs and what-not: stop sending me mail and email. Please. We need a break.