Number of Competitive House Races Doubles from Recent Years... SO???

We are in an election year, as most with a brain and actively living in the 21st century would know. And the media is hyping this as one of the most inportant elections in recent decades. Hold on, aren't ALL elections held in a democratic society of major concern? We, educated Americans, get that! I believe media outlets are placing far too much emphasis on who will have the majority in Washington after November and far too less on what they plan to do, whom ever wins. 

I stole the title of this post directly from an article in the New York Times http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/number-of-competitive-house-races-doubles-from-recent-years/?ref=politics. Don't we need competition? Is that not a major factor which defines us as a liberal democracy? I wish all elections in this country were as competitive as the ones to come. Competitive elections fuel a need and hopfully a want for knowledge on the public's behalf of what exactly is going on in our Country.