NON-PARTISAN PRE-ELECTION DAY GRIPES

The Daily Show was at its cynical best the other night with its Schoolhouse Rock parody on the Midterm Elections - nobody votes, because for most there is nothing to vote for. The costs of campaigning in the Age of the Attack Ad, combined with gerrymandering run amock has reduced the number of competitive House seats to a handfull. For the rest of the country (absent the "lucky" few with a competitive Senate race) there is little they can do to impact national politics. Of course, as clever as the Daily Show is - its dead wrong, midterm elections DO matter - its just there's very little you can do to influence them - unless of course you happen to be a multimillionaire. Then you get to "vote" in as many elections as you want.