Tomorrow, June 14th, is (primary) election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia [WaPo voter's guide].

On the ballot in Northern Virginia are a host of young PAC-funded conservatives challenging incumbent delegates on a single-issue: taxes.

The voters in one district in particular have been innundated/swamped with phone calls, direct mail, door-knocking, and the ubiquitous yard signs. Today's WaPo includes this article about that race.

It is races like these that bring to mind Mario Cuomo's quote, "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose."

The lack of experience enables a challenger to speak in flowery promises while the battle-hardened, knowledgable incumbent is left to fight promises with reality. Unfortunately, reality does play as well politically on a flier or over the phone. But neither does naivete in the statehouse.

- posted by C @ 2:10:00 PM