I couldn't help but suppress a giggle there, CStanley, but I must agree. I'm still breathing deep sighs of relief over that six months later. And I am in NO WAY ready to start fighting the battle of 2012 yet, though many of my colleagues around the blogosphere are.

Low point: It's over and we have one party rule again, and this time it's the party with which I don't even theoretically agree.

Low points: All the mudslinging. I was disappointed by Senator McCain's decision to try to pander to the red meat crowd with baseless insinuations of inappropriate relations with terrorists and criminals. However, I was equally disappointed when Obama responded in kind by bringing up the clearly pre-prepared 13 minute movie on the Keating scandal.

Low point 2: Bob Barr not getting on the ballot in Connecticut. It was the above things that pushed me to him, and his non-inclusion essentially made my vote only symbolic.

Low point – when I realized my choices were McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden.

As for the primary, the highlight was Obama's victory in Iowa. Just couldn't believe it could happen.
Lowlight: Reverend Wright, “God Damn America”

Low point: Rudi Giuliani mocking community organizers while thousands of white Republican delegates laugh it up. I never hated the Republican Party more than that moment.

The lowlights were numerous, but the period of time that really sticks out in my mind was the Obama-Clinton oppression Olympics that developed both within the separate campaigns and among the media and blogosphere. It saddened me greatly to see both “progressives” from the white feminist community exhibit so much racism toward Obama and “progressives” from the general liberal community exhibit so much sexism toward Clinton. Folks who should be natural liberal allies became acutely aware that such an alliance was tenuous at best. Hopefully some good came of all of us on either side understanding more deeply how our particular positions of privilege and lack thereof intersect with others, and especially how they sometimes don’t intersect.

Lowlight – Obama Clinton debate on ABC – aka the debate of gotcha journalism.