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[weener]

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[Guy In Rubber Suit]

Wow. I really should've checked this thread before I voted. I need to get out to the Shizz General Forum more often!

[jeremx]

well this is damned depressing so far: http://results.enr.c...en/summary.html

[thebiggameover]

once again, everything i voted for got fucked....

[JRC]

as far as who's sitting in the seats, yes it's pretty bad for Ds.
how the f*ck did Ben Quayl get elected? Seriously?!

But, fewer of the horrible ballot propositions passed then I thought.
Minor minor victories all.

Of course, they did take an opportunity to get rid of Affirmative Action (107), and make it harder for people to unionize (113).

But, the state land bs died hard.

302 died, which would have raided the childhood ed/health fund.

203 was a real tossup this time, if it hadn't been a referendum on the Dems, it probably would've sqeeked out.
Guess alla ganja growers'll have to emigrate to CA for the time being.

It looks like enough people saw thru the lying title of prop 112, but just barely--that god for political nerds.
Same for 111, I like that we have a Sec. of State who moves to the Gov's office, and who might have a diff' set of priorities.
The more involved the SoC is in actual affairs, the better it is for us/their party--Jan was not, Bennet is.

Terry Goddard should not have run for Gov this time, period. He is a bad campaigner, and would have done much better against a non-incumbant, esp after 1070 was proposed.
There are any number of Dems NOT holding office here who could have lost just as well against Jan.

On a National level, I think the Dems just didn't have the strength to put up a fight.
I don't think they were organized on the states level either.
For that matter The Reps weren't really organized themselves (unless they were just secretly runing all those tea party candidates, hmmmm) but they'll benefit from all these 'grass roots activists' who got in office w/ their hate campaigns.

Dems should start learning the Rep playbook and get some blue ballot measures on the ballots (you know, BESDIES pot), stuff that benefits families or whatnot.
It seems to be a vastly under used tool on the Dem side.

Now, it's a redistricting year, and the majority of the states have Red legislatures I believe, which means they still have them for the next 10 years.

Although, it could be really funny and interesting if some of those winners are as batsh*t crazy as they come across.
Could be a 'fun' year for everyone and maybe teach the population that, "oh yea, there's a reason for all these wonky boring beurocrats."

[differently biotic]

I'm so utterly grossed out by the majority of the results.

and I am totally floored about Quayle winning. WTF moment.

[jeremx]

they had jan's victory thing on the news last night. her voice is so utterly horrifying that it seemed to actually be causing my speakers on my tv to distort. she sounds like the lovechild of urkel and the witch from the wizard of oz talking through a weed whacker.