“…voted against an incumbent…” I did every year — even the odd years — during the decade I lived in Texas. None of my candidates ever won! …Of course my dist

“…voted against an incumbent…” I did every year — even the odd years — during the decade I lived in Texas. None of my candidates ever won! …Of course my district was so heavily gerrymandered that it looked like some weird, vestigial organ among a bunch of nice, rectangular districts. And every year we had to register a little earlier if we wanted to vote. Oh, and, you can’t register online in Texas. And it always seemed like there were fewer polling places and the lines were a bit longer each year. What’s crazy is that, where I live in Minnesota these days, I don’t deal with ANY of these problems. (Well, I’m sure my district is probably somehow gerrymandered, aren’t they all?) It’s almost like in Texas they didn’t want me to vote at all. EDIT: To be clear, I don’t think it’s about standards. I think it’s that all the options are horrendous and the game is rigged like a carnival, anyway.