Just one more day

Man, these mid-term, mid-stream, mid-section, mid-whatever elec­tions are almost over, and it couldn’t come fast enough.  Hang on, every­body, we’ve got one more day of can­di­dates berat­ing each other before we can lapse back into the coma called “pol­i­tics as usual”.

I don’t hear much about what a can­di­date stands for any­more, just about what their com­pe­ti­tion is either against (in case it’s a “good thing”) or for (if it’s a “bad thing”).  That may seem odd at first, but remem­ber this:  if politi­cians never say exactly where they stand, they never have to be accused of lying when they change their minds:

“I never said I was (for/against) that … I just said that my oppo­nent was (against/for) it.”

Makes per­fect sense when you think about it.