Well, I would say that it was a fun evening and night, but besides going half-blind from tracking all of the competitive races tonight and frequently updating the results I was disappointed in the one race that actually mattered most to me, namely the race for my House district in New Mexico.  People in Wyoming are on the knife’s edge over whether they will re-elect their Republican representative (it looks likely that they will in the end–with a lower percentage than Heather got!), but the good folks of Albuquerque could not bring themselves to dispense with the services of Wilson. 

In the irony of ironies, my parents told me that Heather Wilson called my house and asked for me by name.  This is not a joke.  You see, I registered with a third party, and so did not fall into the usual category of partisans whom they normally try to contact, so she wanted to make sure that I got out there and voted (presumably for her).  This was no robo-call, but the last-ditch GOTV personal push by the candidate herself–perhaps it was calls such as these that put her over the edge.  I regret missing that call–it would have been a surreal and hilarious moment to have the Congresswoman petitioning an arch-critic for his vote.  The only thing that annoys me more than missing that call, which would have made a priceless story, is that Heather did not, in fact, lose.  Why won’t she simply go away and retire or do something else?  Why must she keep returning to bother us?  Why?