I'm so sorry about that. I would commiserate, except it looks like all the local and near-local races that had a chance in MD actually came out *right*! Even state senator Giannetti went down, oh *yeah*. Except the county council thing, which is just embarrassing.

...Minnesota's survived worse?

I like a three-state solution for Iraq; I'm just not sure we could stabilize it even well enough for that, with the resources we currently have. Although if we swallowed our pride enough to get an actual coalition put together, who knows!