Vote Jeremy in 2028!!!

The 2013 campaign season is mercifully behind us.  In unrelated news, campaigning for the 2014 elections is in full swing!

I don't know if we can really fully embrace the 2014 elections just yet.  We need a good solid week or two of analysis from the 2013 elections first.

Very true, but so much of that analysis will consist of the implications the 2013 elections are going to have on the 2014 elections.  Two sides of the same coin, perhaps. 

Or the same side of two different coins, if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be believed.   

So what we now have are inane gasbags who are going to sit around on TV and talk about other inane gasbags who just got elected to do nothing but sit around and argue about why they should get re-elected next time.  It's a vicious circle, really.  The really amusing part about this particular election is how everybody is claiming victory, which you wouldn't think to be the case.

So there's this Governor who got re-elected in a walk.  It was actually terrific that the polls closed at 8PM Tuesday night, and at 8:02, with 0% of the vote counted, CNN declared a winner.  He won the election, but the other side also said that they won because the guy who actually won is closer to their ideology than other people from the governor's party.  

Another race for governor in a different state had a very different outcome.  Early polls suggested that one of the candidates would win in a landslide, if lots of people turned out to vote.  Roughly 25% of the population actually voted, and the guy won a close race.  The other candidate declared victory because the race was closer than it might have been, which means the other guy's policies are all wrong.  

Either way, all of these elected "leaders" will now go around campaigning for their next election every time a TV camera is trained on them.  We'll get to hear lots and lots about how the other side is destroying the country and how the only way we can avoid a disastrous fate is to vote for one party over the other.  Basically, business as usual, which means that this election...like the last many elections, and the next one...didn't change a thing.  Please prove me wrong.