I received my mail-in ballot a couple of days ago. I haven't mailed it in yet, but I will be voting for Obama/Biden for Pres and Veep, and Jim McDermott for my Congressional Representative. I will also be voting for Christine Gregoire for Governor.

There are also several state, county, and city offices and issues on the ballot that will take a bit more study and boning up.   I will be mailing off my ballot in the next few days, well before November 4th.

Both nationally and locally, this is about the nastiest campaign I can recall. Some candidates and their supporters are managing to maintain a certain measure of dignity, but I'm amazed at the extent of what, unfortunately, has become the National Slime Wallow. . . .

Don Firth