I predict that both sides will describe this election as a victory, and a "referendum on" the other guys.
I further predict that nothing which happens in this election will generally affect the national response to the White House and its shenanigans, despite the repeated insistence of everyone on both sides that this is somehow a redo of the Trump election. Seriously, he doesn't care. Frankly, a blue House would be his dream come true, someone to argue with and blame things on without having to make someone up first. It might protect the rest of us a little bit, but past experience has not made me confident that Democrats actually know how to use a majority when they have it.
This did not stop me from holding my nose and voting a straight blue ticket, but there you have it.
I am watching my local races with great interest. Among other things, my employer is getting three new trustees, and it is pretty much our last hope in terms of avoiding a faculty strike that none of us actually want, so... here's hoping.
The school is also in the Congressional district of Jeff Denham, who may or may not get unseated by Josh Harder, a kid who I knew in high school and always thought of as kind of a twat, but I'm glad he's running anyway. We are also co-workers now of a sort (he does an adjunct gig at the school from time to time) and seems to have matured. I live in a different voting district, but have been watching the whole thing with interest, especially since I have long despised the Denham clan and their control over local politics.
The students seem very engaged in the democratic process this year, and this is echoed in what the papers have been reporting about turnout generally, so that at least is encouraging.
I don't have a television, so I'm planning to head over to my gym to watch the prime time coverage from a recumbent bike machine. It's nice to live in California, where the most important coverage is at a convenient point in the evening.
Also we might get rid of daylight savings time?
