Senator Torricelli may benefit politics and democracy in more ways than one by bowing out of his reelection campaign. From now on we won't know who the real candidate are until the day of the elections. Instead of these boring campaigns, each party will run their first choices until the polls show clearly that one hasn't got a snowball's chance, at which point the losing side will put up another candidate who it thinks will run better. This will keep up as they try to find winning candidates with the clock ticking. It'll be great to watch. Just like musical chairs or Beat the Clock, right up to election day.

This will really help the parties, because the voters won't know until they get to the polls who the final candidates are, or anything else about them. I can hardly wait.