Lisa and I had an unusual perspective from which to watch the returns of yesterday’s North Carolina primary election: since I’ve been treasurer for Eric H. Smith’s campaign for statewide Superintendent of Public Instruction, we spent the evening at “campaign headquarters”. That being Eric’s house.

We had a very fun time! In addition to getting to play with Eric’s eighteen-month old son there was also good food courtesy of Eric’s wonderful wife Kelly. We had their high-def television tuned to one of the regional stations while Eric’s computer fed us constant returns from the North Carolina Board of Elections website.

When all was said and done, Eric came in 2nd in the Republican primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction, with 25% of the votes cast. Richard Morgan will go on to the general election in November with 51% of the votes.

So are we disappointed? If we were, I didn’t ...