Democracy 1, Comedy 0

If there is any silver lining to the Democrats's big win Tuesday night, it's that had your LakeCountyEye needed a morning after pill on Wednesday, they would've been still legal. It seemed like your LakeCountyEye had been legitimately raped by the election polls.

Your LakeCountyEye woke this morning to a political landscape bulldozed flatter than real estate specially re-zoned for the DiMucci family. Where there had once been plenty of fertile political comedy that practically wrote itself, your LakeCountyEye now looks ahead to a bleak prospect of having to dig up, cultivate and report on actual stories. There was nothing funny about the 2012 election results.

Here is the unfunny, in order of comedic relevance:

• Joe Walsh Defeated
  Say it ain't so, Joe. The one glimmer of hope is an upcoming 2014 Republican Primary, featuring at least one Senatorial or Gubernatorial candidate named Joe Walsh.
  
  
• Mitt Romney Defeated
  Perhaps nowhere other than Lake County would just mentioning President Willard "Mitt" Romney be enough to get a laugh.
  
  
• Sid Mathias Defeated
  Your LakeCountyEye only got one opportunity to use this photo:

  

  Now to be seen exclusively on the dustheap of history.
  
  
• Robert Dold Defeated
  They won't have EllenOfTheTenth to kick around any more.
  
  
• Sandy Cole Defeated
  This is actually a win for readers of this blog, who shall be spared the gratuitous (or two) "Hurricane" Sandy Cole joke.
  
  
• Suzi Schmidt Restraining Order Extended Six Months
  Nuff said.

In this grim, new political landscape that is Lake County, don't expect to see your LakeCountyEye much of anywhere. Except maybe barreling down the Route 53 Extension, looking for some laughs.