Eyes on Virginia

I have been quiet in this space for some time for a number of reasons. The most pressing ones involved a crunched work schedule and a hectic personal life.

The more pressing was a general frustration with public life that has overcome me the last few weeks of the last few election cycles.

Those of us in the DC metro area had two competetive Senate races to occupy our mindshare and our airwaves (as well as our answering machines).

The race in Virginia was particularly frustrating. It was a race that got personal very early, and just went downhill from there. Sadly, it appears that the end is not near, and that the slide will continue with the anticipated recount.

I think being left with this sludgefest as the possible deciding election is appropriate for the politics that we have seen for the past few years. Sadly, it's all of us who will have to suffer through it. Maybe, as this race comes into sharper focus across the country we will finally be able to say enough is enough. Or more importantly, maybe both sides will look at this race and say, maybe if we stuck to the issues we could have pulled it out.

We all can dream.