In the Senate: finally.  It's now time for the GOP to get it together and begin stacking workable legislation on the Presidents desk and challenge him to actually do something.  For a change.

Governors:  lawdy, are there any Democratic governors left except ours?

Local:  the results are pretty much what I thought they would be.  Mrs. Bass had a good organization and is obviously popular in the City.  She ran a good campaign and killed it, garnering a thousand more votes than the next nearest challenger.  Mr. Aveni ran a tough, bare-knuckled, no-holds-barred campaign for reelection.  I worked Baldwin all day long and his poll workers weren't distributing the republican sample ballot (which included Mrs. Comstock and Mr. Gillespie) until Sharon shamed them into it and were instructing voters to only vote for one candidate.  He came in second.  Mr. Elston had a tall hill to climb but his performance in the debates really stirred interest in him and were a difference-maker in his election.  He came within about a hundred votes of the two-term incumbent Aveni.  A strong showing.  Patricia, who I really like, suffered from a slow start but performed much better in the later debates just had too far to go to get there.  I hope she stays involved in the community.

What do I think it all means?  That's tough.  On a personal level this was pretty much what I was trying to avoid – two more years of navel gazing – so I'm glad I am on the sidelines from here on out.  As a general electoral comment, moving the elections really had no practical effect on the outcome this time around.    Why?  Well, we'll have to explore that in blog posts to come….