Samuel Johnson once said that while Milton's "Paradise Lost" was a great work, "none ever wished it longer than it is."
With unbridled spending (surpassing the entire advertisement budget of the NFL), unparalleled accusations (the estranged mother of a gubernatorial candidate calling her candidate daughter a "liar") and wild exaggerations (the charge that one party had veered into communism), the 2026 midterm election campaign was not a great work of human endeavor.
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