Voters November 2 didn’t do much to make the job easier for Jerry Brown, California’s former governor and current governor-elect.  In fact, from a fiscal perspective, voters made the already daunting task of being governor of a recession-wracked state even harder for the 72-year-old attorney general. 

The 2010 elections have proven to be an historic year for third party and Independent politics in the United States, with record high numbers of third party and Independent candidates across the country seeking to capitalize on the electorate’s deep discontent with the two-party status quo.  

Major schisms are forming within both major parties, and last night's election makes this all the more obvious. There will now be open warfare within both parties, as the factions vie for dominance. 

Either this has been one of the strangest elections in recent history, or else having the Internet around has simply made it possible to nationally ruminate over the strange goings-on in elections throughout the country. Here are ten of the weirdest moments during the 2010 midterm elections:

1. Demon Sheep Ad