Election nights are killing me

So another election day has come and gone here in America.
It's the first time in a long time that I haven't gone to the polls on election day.
That's only because we didn't have an election here in Los Angeles.
But you know there were many races around the country. (Duh)
And the yapping talking heads all told us how "important" they were. After all, if the Republican challenger won in either VA or NJ, well, then Obama is a failure. Of course, they said that right up until the polls showed them it totally wasn't.
Let's not forget NY-23. Oy.
And Maine. Voting on the basic rights of people. We have to stop doing that, by the way. Human beings have the right to marry the man or woman of their choice. None of the rest of us have the right to vote on this. It's disgraceful.
I'm tired of these losses. (Not that I was all right with it last year, by the way.)
What right do we have to vote and decide who has a right to marry?
We don't.
And we should be ashamed.