I think the OP was spot on. I voted with my early ballot, but there's just a lot of tension in the air today. I keep wondering what the political battlefront is going to look like over the next year or so. It's a pretty solid guess that the GOP will make gains. They won't be catastrophic; this won't be a referendum on anyone. The pendulum swings pretty reliably against the incumbent party at midterm time.
My problem is how the substance of all this will shake down. The GOP has a lot left to explain in its pervasive retrenchment. If Tea Partiers take up Senate and House seats, there's no guarantee that they'll play nice. It is unclear to me how balanced proportions in the Senate (Dems with a very slight majority) will ensure bipartisan compromise, especially given how the first two years went. It also begs the question that if 47 GOPers make up the Senate, how are they going to press 13 on the other side of the aisle to reach supermajority status?
Finally, I wistfully note today that as I walked back toward my house, a Christian group was dressed up nicely and singing songs. I walked up just in time to find another young man standing there and watching them, and we were both listening to this extended prayer (diatribe) about how people should vote wisely. Just when I thought I would be surprised, "wisdom" necessarily included voting pro-life, anti-gay-marriage, low taxes, etc., etc.
Great. This is what we've been reduced to nowadays. Not that I have all the knowledge or info on the issues of today either, by no means, but I'm really pissed that politics has devolved over the decades into winning of the dumbest common denominator.