On the eve of this election, there's something I need your help to understand

[merrily]

233. I wondered what that was about. Almost the entire Republican campaign strategy this year

seems to be attempting to equate every Democratic candidate with Obama. And almost the entire campaign strategy of Democrats this year (at least in the ads I've been seeing in Boston) has been to underscore that the Democratic candidate is not Obama and Obama is not running. (What a bizarre and dysfunctional election season!)

But then, Obama comes out and says the same things the Republican candidates and PACs have been saying most of the election season. Said, "I told them to do whatever they needed to do win." And many Democrats seem to think that what they needed to do to win this year was to try hard to distance themselves from Obama. So, Obama stays quiet about that until the campaigns are winding down, but there is still time for the Republicans to use his words against Democratic candidates?

Scott Brown, now running as a carpetbagger in New Hampshire against Jean Shaheen, has been quoting Obama statement about how Obama is not seeking votes this year, but Obama's policies are--and Shaheen has voted with Obama 99% of the time.

Meanwhile, Scott Brown, as a REPUBLICAN Senator from Massachusetts, voted "with Obama" 78% of the time. Why would it be unusual for a Democratic Senator like Shaheen to have voted with Obama a bit more than a Republican Senator from the Northeast voted "with Obama?" And why does Shaheen let Brown hammer her with having voted "with Obama" 99% of the time without making that point?

I have never seen a midterm as dumbass as this one and hope the future brings us campaigns that are more meaningful.