Don't Forget to Vote!

For those of us with local races, today's election day. If you're interested, keep a close eye on the New Jersey governor race and find out which asshole gazillionnaire has bitch-slapped his way to Trenton.

In another interesting race, the governorship of Virginia is currently too close to call. As I've mentioned, it's been an ugly campaign. And this election will help to answer a couple of questions as we look forward to next year's midterm elections: 1) Are the Democrats viable in the south? 2) How far, if at all, will congressional Republicans have to remove themselves from Bush's image in order to get re-elected?

Meanwhile, here in New York, we've got a mayoral race pitting an incredibly popular, enormously wealthy Republican (Mike Bloomberg) against an uninspired, entitled Democrat (Fernando Ferrer). I've heard rumors that Bloomberg donated something like $7 million to the Bush campaign and was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing the Republican National Convention to our fine city. Are these things forgivable? On the other hand I'm still waiting for Ferrer to say something -- anything -- that convinces me he'd actually be a good mayor. It's election day and I still wait. Most polls have Bloomberg beating Ferrer by more than 30 percentage points. So I'm probably gonna throw my vote away and give it to the Working Families Party candidate, whoever the hell he/she is.

But proving once again that I live in the greatest neighborhood in New York, our city council race has got Democratic incumbent Eric Gioia facing Green Party candidate Robyn Sklar. That's right: no Republican at all. Eric "Where There's a Camera There's A" Gioia has probably clinched his re-election. But I've seen Robyn out working the streets, and my favorite greasy spoon sports her sign, so I think I'm gonna "Vote Green, Not Machine," just like she suggests.