It was a pretty terrible election, as far as access to the polls goes.
I recently wrote a column on the pressing question of which state is having the most terrible election this year.
I never expected to be, by the way, and that election, of course, in 1983 was a terrible election".
When a few Congress workers complained about the terrible election result last month, they felt only emboldened enough to beg for a different dynast, Priyanka, Rahul's sister.
Even after a terrible election defeat, Labour can still proudly boast more women MPs at Westminster than all the other parties combined.
But patrician conservatives in "blue" (Democratic) areas had a terrible election: the last New England Republican in the House lost, as did a moderate Republican senator in Oregon, Gordon Smith, who had even run a television advert associating himself with Mr Obama.
But in the wake of this terrible election, much of my hope has rested not on what could or should happen, and not what the historical record tells us has happened, but what is happening now.
But for the party activists whose doggedly cheery mood this week has defied the terrible election result, his biggest triumph was to send them off on the long and rough road ahead with a renewed sense of confidence in their importance on the stage of national politics.
Their leader's career could end with defeat in his Sheffield Hallam seat, of course, or in resignation after a terrible election performance.
Though Maggie Hassan's re-election in New Hampshire was a rare bright spot in an otherwise terrible election for Democratic gubernatorial candidates, she now must work with a Republican-controlled legislature, after the GOP captured the majority in the state legislature.
