These occupants must have cast absentee ballots, for they are long gone, off to softer climes. And tomorrow we responsible folk will pull down our lawn signs, although the giant Walker and Fitzgerald banners will probably stand until some blizzard flattens them.

The great thing is, we have not watched live TV more than 15 minutes since we got back from Canada (which means that every minute we have watched cost us about $37.50)(but I'm working on rectifying that.) So we have been spared all the vitriolic garbage. Truly, life is very different when you don't watch TV—vastly better. (Nota bene: Streaming Netflix is okay.)

I've long maintained that televison is an insidious poison capable of destroying almost any thing of value. Can we imagine political campaigns in which there was no TV? Voters would have to either listen to the candicates in person (or on the radio) or actually read about them. Of course reading requires a certain level of cognitive skill that may be mostly missing in the modern electorate.

Cynics of the world, unite!