Happy US Mid-Term Election Results
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bjarvisMost of my wish list from yesterday came true!
Adrian Fenty is now mayor-elect of Washington DC, taking 90% of the vote totals. Sounds like a solid mandate to me.
Maryland races: I despise our governor, Bob Ehrlich (R). While I'm not wild about Martin O'Malley (D), he'd do. And indeed, O'Malley won, displacing Ehrlich and thus the first turfing of a single-term incumbent in Maryland since 1951. Michael Steele (R), the lieutenant-governor seems a nice enough guy but he was too close to Ehrlich in my books so I preferred to see him lose his bid for the US senate as well as keep the seat in Democratic hands as a message to Bush; fortunately, Ben Cardin (D) won so I'm content with the results.
Ohio: Blackwell went down in flames. Yay! More than almost any other race, I was happy with this particular result.
Florida: Kathleen Harris loses. Yay again! She is simply too much a hyper-pseudo-christian, vain, unstable nutjob for public office anywhere.
Virginia: Allen (R) vs. Webb (D). Hmm... Don't like either of them but I'd prefer Webb to help keep the senate out of Republican hands. At the moment, Webb is indeed in the lead but by such a slim margin a recount is an inevitability.
Overall: The wins in the House of Reps was more than I dared hope. The gains in the Senate far exceeded my expectations, even if the remaining two undecided races go to the Republicans. Of course, I'd be happier if they went to Democratic hands but I fear saying so out loud may appear greedy.
Anything which can tame the right-wing extremes of the GOP or hamstring W's making-it-up-as-he-goes non-agenda would be a very good thing in my books.
Adrian Fenty is now mayor-elect of Washington DC, taking 90% of the vote totals. Sounds like a solid mandate to me.
Maryland races: I despise our governor, Bob Ehrlich (R). While I'm not wild about Martin O'Malley (D), he'd do. And indeed, O'Malley won, displacing Ehrlich and thus the first turfing of a single-term incumbent in Maryland since 1951. Michael Steele (R), the lieutenant-governor seems a nice enough guy but he was too close to Ehrlich in my books so I preferred to see him lose his bid for the US senate as well as keep the seat in Democratic hands as a message to Bush; fortunately, Ben Cardin (D) won so I'm content with the results.
Ohio: Blackwell went down in flames. Yay! More than almost any other race, I was happy with this particular result.
Florida: Kathleen Harris loses. Yay again! She is simply too much a hyper-pseudo-christian, vain, unstable nutjob for public office anywhere.
Virginia: Allen (R) vs. Webb (D). Hmm... Don't like either of them but I'd prefer Webb to help keep the senate out of Republican hands. At the moment, Webb is indeed in the lead but by such a slim margin a recount is an inevitability.
Overall: The wins in the House of Reps was more than I dared hope. The gains in the Senate far exceeded my expectations, even if the remaining two undecided races go to the Republicans. Of course, I'd be happier if they went to Democratic hands but I fear saying so out loud may appear greedy.
Anything which can tame the right-wing extremes of the GOP or hamstring W's making-it-up-as-he-goes non-agenda would be a very good thing in my books.
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Re: Texas Politics....Party of None
Date: 2006-11-08 02:17 pm (UTC)On Sekula-Gibbs... Rule #1 of working to elect a write-in candidate is to pick a candidate whose name can actually be remembered and spelled correctly on a ballot. :-)
I still miss Ann.