I'm a bad blogger. I have thoughts through out the day, observations about life here, I make mental and/or paper notes and never do anything with them. It's been a week since I last posted but nothing of real significance has happened.

In addition to being a bad blogger, I'm a bad Democracy and Democratisation student. I truly am. Know why? I didn't vote. More importantly, I didn't want to vote. This election cycle has been nothing but a tragic mess. A tragic, unholy mess full of nothing but vitriol and bile spewed from extremists. I made the decision not to file for an absentee ballot before I left home. I honestly felt that in this election that it didn't matter. And in my state, my vote honestly doesn't. I live in a very safe Democratic district who will re-elect our representative in a walk. I knew last year, before the campaign even began, who the new Republican governor would be. I felt for the first time like my vote truly wouldn't have mattered. And it wouldn't have. The returns next Tuesday will be the same. So I don't know if not voting really makes me a bad Democracy and Democratisation student or a bad Democrat. Probably a little bit of both.
I'm disappointed in my party. Every time they had the opportunity to get something done, they fumbled on the one yard line. They crashed going into the last turn. Yet half the time they had trouble out of the getting out of the gate. I don't know whose fault it was, and frankly I don't care anymore. They squandered a monumental opportunity, a chance to do what was right, to get the nation moving in the right direction. But they blew it. And now they've blown their majority.

Tuesday can't come quickly enough. If only so I don't ever have to hear about Christine O'Donnell again. Then again, that's what I thought about Sarah Palin in 2008.