Ehrlich has conceded. Governor Martin O'Malley. Huh.

Sign of the times (and too damned many ads!) this cracked me up:

In downtown Annapolis, as a light evening rain fell, hairstylist Tarsha Beavers, 23, arrived to vote with her young daughter, Jaylin, in tow. Beavers said she liked Martin O'Malley and Ben Cardin as Democratic candidates for governor and senator.

"Everything's so close and I had to make sure I vote," she said. "My friends ask me why."

Jaylin, 4, looked up from the water fountain and said, "I approved this message."

Jaylin, 4, looked up from the water fountain and said, "I approved this message."

Bwah!

Backing up Nora,

I have read some RIdiculous and easily as vile things on liberal blogs over the past 6 years.

The only reason I think that Freeper comment about "stupid, lazy voters" is funny is because surely some of the people who voted yesterday are the same people who voted in 2004, when the results went the way the Freepers wanted. Right? It's not like all the people who voted yesterday were people who didn't vote in 2004.

Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.

I just find the lack of logic funny, is all. Not the hate.

(Or am I over-explaining something that nobody else even noticed? I probably am. Sorry.)

Not inter-occular ingestion, right?

My eyeballs are coffee-free.

I actually saw a steele ad that I liked last night. Him and his two sons on the steps of a house, the sons were talking about how they had to let people know about their dad -- he listens to Sinatra and Motown. But he has integrity, blah, blah blah. Then he says I'm Micheal Steele and I approve this message . . . I think. Very cute. But, he's still a lying misdirecting scumbag who refuses to concede. Asshole.

I just find the lack of logic funny, is all. Not the hate.

I agree

What Tom said, about "Isn't tax & spend better than not-tax & spend?"

I like, except I'd change "not-tax & spend" to "borrow & spend."

Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.

I would just like to point out that that's ridiculous, because how could a person become LESS informed over two years? Clearly the people who voted R two years ago have become less stupid and more informed. It's the only explanation.

I have read some RIdiculous and easily as vile things on liberal blogs over the past 6 years.

No kidding. Neither republican nor democrat has a monopoly on the crazy. I try not to froth. It's hard sometimes, but really, it's just messy and looks bad on me.

Yes. Me, too.

I would agree, but I'd argue that there's more of the crazy, the hate, on Republican blogs.

Nah. You just don't find it compelling in the same way.

I was physically and psychically unable to cast my vote for Kerry in '06, in part, because of the hate I was seeing from my fellow Democrats. Now, I live in Massachusetts, so I has as much reason to think he'd win Massachusetts and her electoral college votes, as I do to expect the earth to keep turning (which was the only reason I could use my vote as a protest). But liberals are no less vile. And when they're vile, they disappoint me more, just the same way I'm much more upset when my own children act up, than I am when someone else's child acts up. It's a You Ought to Know Better thing, for me. I expect more from my own. If I weren't so inert, I would have changed my voter registration to Independent. I still expect I will someday, when I have to go to Town Hall for something. I just haven't had to go to Town Hall for the past two years.