Is it almost November?

You would think that being in the DC area we would be bombarded with political messages during elections, but in a lot of elections that hasn't been the case. Typically Maryland and DC have been very safely Democratic and Virginia has been safely Republican, so the candidates and political parties saved their firepower for the "swing states." I can already tell this year is probably going to be different, especially here in Virginia where shifting demographics and a high-profile Senate race give Obama a shot. I finally checked our messages today (our phone line has been dead since I got home the other day) and, sure enough, of the three messages we had, one was from the Obama campaign inviting us to his local kickoff event, and another was from the McCain campaign inviting us to an event of their own. This has the potential to be a very long summer and fall...