Pessimism, a little

[geminigirl]

I realize with the anouncement today that Senator Allen is conceeding the election to Senator-Elect Webb, I should be hopeful. And I am. It's hopeful but tempered with pessimism. I keep flashing back to the last time there was a rather significant shift like this, in 1994, and thinking of the Contract with America, and how disaterous that turned out to be.

I hold out some hope that it will be better this time, but hope and faith are not the same things.