Today in Depressing Headlines

Gallup: Republicans Appear Poised to Win Big on Tuesday.

FiveThirtyEight: 5 Reasons Republicans Could Do Even Better Than Expected.

MSNBC: Poll suggests Dems will face 'hurricane winds'.

Many of the people voting Republican will be voting not affirmatively for the GOP's vision, but as a repudiation of Obama's (socialist, anti-American, secret Muslim) agenda. Many of the people voting Democrat will be voting not affirmatively for the Democrats' recent record, but as a defensive measure to try to keep the GOP out of power.

This is what we've come to: A nation voting against what we perceive to be the worse of two terrible options.

Or maybe that's what we've always been.

But it feels terrible and futile to me in a way it hasn't quite before.

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