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I have, however, rationalized the reason for my personal electoral sadness.
Jim Oberstar was my congresscritter with a whole bunch of seniority which gave him the chairmanship of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
He has a history of bring home a lot of projects for his district. That fact was used against him, but he did the job rational people expected of him.
Now I have a freshman representative with the (personally nauseating) name of Chip. Who thinks the government has the right to force his opinion on women's medical issues, has already gotten through a big part of his life with a government job, and is yet another politician who isn't from the state.
My representation used to be a hop, skip, and a jump away.
Now it may as well be on Mars...
(Funny, but the one "original" constitutional idea that I would agree with is representation. When the current version of congress was started, we had less than a hundred members representing about 4 million people. That's a better ratio than we'll ever have again. Maybe that makes me a teabagger, but I don't think so...)
