Win and lose, lessons learned from elections

With more than 200,000 Coloradans looking for work, someone just spent more than $5.5 million on three job interviews.

That’s about what the major gubernatorial candidates ponied up for the 2010 election – in one race, in one state. Taken collectively, while about 30 million Americans remain jobless, billions and billions of dollars changed hands to fill a couple hundred positions, only a few of which were actually vacant.

Through the magic of dead-tree communications, although you are reading it three days after the election, this editorial will go to print about two hours before the polls close, so we can’t analyze…