I wasn't suggesting that Mary Anne was part of the Democratic Party's spin machine.
She's just pissed right now. She'll get over it. We all do.
One of the problems with a largely centralized system of government is that it's easy to start thinking of Washington as the center of the universe. Years ago, as Jerry Pournelle once said, it was more important to the average person who the mayor was, not the president of the U.S.
The one thing that would really help our country is moving the power out of Washington and back to the state and local levels.
We shouldn't be treating presidential elections like we were selecting gods.