Friends don't let friends, wait. what?

• Yesterday morning, friends Pete and Mildred were in their motel room in upstate New York. They are on a trip from Maine to visit family and friends in the Midwest. When they heard the news about Massachusetts election, they asked themselves, who can we call to annoy?
  They called me.
• When I called a customer yesterday morning and asked how she was doing, she said, "Great."
  Expecting to learn about some progress with our project, she said that her happiness was about the election.
• When Sandra and I voted on Tuesday, a man holding a Scott Brown sign stopped us. I was wearing a sweatshirt from son Mike's company which the sign-holder recognized. He wanted to talk about Joseph's Project, our non-profit that delivers food to families in the Wachusett area. He belonged to a local American Legion and wanted to make sure that we're getting all the support that we need.

So, how come we're surrounded by all these nice folks, including two sons, who are Republicans? And, you know, I can't tell if it's because of something we've done wrong or something we've done right.