I guess the silver lining of living where I do is that I'm not getting political phone calls this year. The Virginia electoral cycle is out of synch with the Federal cycle (our state elections occur in odd numbered years), and neither Senate seat is up for election this year, so the only races in VA this year are the House seats. My district is so non-competitive, that the challenger is barely campaigning. My incumbent representative will probably win the election by a landslide, while hardly doing more campaigning than littering the district with signs. I would love to have a viable choice on election day, but on the other hand, it is nice that the phone isn't ringing every night with campaign messages...