The national elections are more interesting, but I completely agree that the local and state elections are every bit as important.
(2004, Ohio had a conservative Republican SoS, Ken Blackwell, who did a lot to stop the Soros/Kerry machine from stealing the Ohio election. Now we've got an awful Dem who worked with ACORN to elect Obama. State elections are critical!)
Yeah, I remember in 2004 Dems were claiming that they had 600,000 Dem votes not counted in Ohio :)