This afternoon when Dino Rossi finally came to his senses and said he wouldn’t be appealing Judge Bridge’s election ruling, I felt a sense of relief weirdly similar to what I felt after walking out of the movie theatre at the end of Star Wars Episode III — “It’s finally over.”

I’ve been angry at the media for months, ever since last November, when one of the TV news shows (probably King5 news, as everything they say tends to annoy the living daylights out of me) announced they had done a survey with the result being that half the locals were confused about who had won the election. Small surprise there, since every day had brought a different result, and people who can watch the news every single day have far too much time on their hands.

As time dragged on and the media continued to make the Republicans look like a bunch of sore losers without ever saying it out loud, but instead needling us every other week or so with threats of a multi-million-dollar re-vote, my tolerance for politicians and all things electiony wore down to a nub.

On Sunday night when King5 was quoting someone saying how unfair it was on the voters that all these errors should have turned the election, I went to sleep grinding my teeth. I can’t believe they’ve spent all this time blaming the voting system, and King County’s procedures, and dead people, and criminals who voted. Who’s really to blame here are the voters.

Yes, that’s right: you lot. Did you all pick a buddy and agree that one would vote republican and the other, democrat? Almost a million people voted, and the only thing the Rossi camp could do for the past 5 months was nitpick over a thousand votes cast by local felons? That’s like… one-tenth of a percent. The real injustice was that there were two candidates who were so equally unwanted that it was a 50/50 coin-flip as to who would make it into office. Think about that the next time you head in to vote.