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Bob Filner Carl DeMaio San Diego Mayoral RaceThe best-kept secret about elections is that the outcomes are, more often than not, inevitable regardless of the campaign waged by each side. Regardless of the race, Californian's have arguably witnessed some of the poorest campaigns of the 2012 season.

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November. In 2007, the Tea Party began. No Sarah Palin. No Newt Gingrich. A few Republicans. But there were a lot more independents, many Democrats, and a whole bunch of others who don't fit into any of the stereotypes.

The 2012 campaign started in 2008. Arguably, it became a personal battle between Obama and anyone else around the time Mitch McConnell argued that defeating the President was more important than governance. Since then, they’ve armed their tanks with fear of isms: communism, socialism, welfarism, marxism. Undecided voters have been stuck in the middle or out on the edges; we can't decide.