Yesterday mid afternoon, I looked around at some comments at various websites, and picked up the anecdotal evidence that Saxby Chambliss was on the way to a victory.  Reports were that Atlanta voting spots were empty, emptier, and emptiest.  The urge to get Democrats to a 59th seat as opposed to a 58th seat was a rather unspectacular goal — Obama has been elected, that’s all anyone cared about, this is an anti-climax.  Meanwhile, Republicans spot this election as the only thing standing between Complete Democratic Socialist Domination and … not exactly divided government, but cracked government.  The election surrogates itself — try to spot the “Which of these people is doing its own thing” in this list:

on the Republican side, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, Mitt Romney and Rudolph W. Giuliani. The Democrats sent former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and the rapper Ludacris.

The New York Times article on the election also brings, or brought, one interesting item from a 16 year old campaign worker who trucked in from out of state to campaign for Chambliss — and, not being able to find it in the article I have to dredge it out of a search… On why we need Chambliss to prevail.:

“America is a center-right country,” he said. “We need to have a balance of power.”

This saddens me.  His reasoning is a weird meaningless talking point.  He has a couple years to knock that out of his system before he comes to voting age (and I’m not referring to his partisan politics), but knowing the world of politics, he probably won’t.

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