Poll vaulting

Well, today's the day. Everyone go out and vote. I have to confess to a large degree of ambivalence today. I generally vote Republican for state offices, not so much because I think they're better than the Democratic candidates, but in Illinois a vote for a Democrat is a vote for Chicago. I don't agree with the theory that says "What's good for Chicago is good for Illinois" -- it usually means more of our tax money shifted to help susidize a city that can't support itself without help. The republican candidate for representative is such a bonehead though. He says he's the only prolife candidate -- good, so am I -- but he has no other ideas, and I know that it doesn't matter that he's prolife, he can't change anything. And his campaign keeps calling the house...

In a way, I hope the democrats win big tonight -- not that I think they'll do better than what we've got now, the entrenched leadership will be too busy pushing thier tired old agendas to actually make any real change. Plus, Slate.com will (hopefully) back off the 'we hate everything republican so much" rhetoric they've been printing lately. The site has been nearly unreadable for the last week.