It's officially the loud season

The candidates for the DC mayoral race are on the air and going negative (already!), and I just saw my first Michael Steele ad (he's the republican candidate for the senate seat that Sarbanes is vacating in MD). The MD state's attorney races are up on the air and running. So are the Montgomery County (MD) county executive campaigns. The Virginia senate race ads have been on the air for a while, and so have two of the contenders for the democratic nomination for the senate seat from MD.

Get out your earplugs.