Feeling Blue...

...blue STATE, that is!

Our little precinct/ward/district/city/county/state can boast:

Blue Governor

Blue Senators

Blue Representatives

Blue State Senator

Blue State Rep

Blue Attorney General

Blue Treasurer

Blue Secretary of State

Blue Comptroller

Blue Appeals Court

Blue Cook County Board

In fact, we're so Blue, 10% went for the Green gubernatorial candidate. (Isn't it great that the adjective for Governor starts with "guber"? I love English!)

Sadly, this makes my vote feel just as useless as it felt in California — them Dems can trot out whoever they'd like and know that they're going to carry the day, so they don't need worry about things like, yaknow, progressive politics.

Happily, I was surprised that I got to vote on a measure imploring Congress to bring our troops home, just like all my cool friends in San Francisco who got to vote on Prop J.

And in an homage to sportswriter Peter King, here's a factoid that may interest only me: Thanks to Chicago's 3000+ taxing authorities (library districts, school districts, mosquito abatement districts, fire services districts: the mind reels), we voted not 100 yards away from the polling place for another district. While we residents of the 40th precinct of the 32nd ward filled in our ballot in Burley's basement cafeteria, residents of the 36th precinct did the same in the field house across the playground. Amazing!