Even at my little town's library (way in the hills, very far from Boston),  this past Saturday, the general post-Senate election sentiment was: WTF???

WTF indeed. Mass. Dems went Harvard with Coakley when they should have gone UMass with Capuano. (That, plus the fact that Scott Brown spent more than $13 million.) Best and brightest go down in flames.

Then there's the gender thing. At Politics Daily,  Jill Lawrence has a great piece on the Coakley defeat, and asks the question of whether Emily's List, which provides financial and other support for female candidates, is actually a good thing. In this case, they clearly bet on the wrong pony.

And while we're on the topic of women in politics, if you have not read the book Game Change yet, this New York Magazine piece on John and Elizabeth Edwards, excerpted from the book, will knock you out. You can't make this stuff up, and authors John Heilemann & Mark Halperin didn't.

I got a hinky feeling about Elizabeth Edwards very early on, when a New York Times mentioned, in passing, that the couple was building a 28-room house while they were campaigning for the presidency.

We repeat: WTF? Twenty-eight rooms?

Anyone who has built a house knows the insanity of taking on such a project at all, let alone during a presidential campaign. It suggested a couple that was A. delusional and without boundaries, and B. so squealingly rich they didn't need to worry about it. Not the traits you might want in a president.

Plus: only in America could someone be building a 28-room mansion pass himself off as the champion of the common man.

But read the piece. It's breathtaking.

                                                                       --BJ Roche