How Did Yesterday's Election...

[queenoftheskies]

Afect your home state?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Comments

[dragonmyst.livejournal.com]

I have no idea.

I didn't realize untill yesterday it was election day.
I didn't know anything about anyone who was running, since I didn't I didn't vote. I won't vote unless I know what I'm voting on, you know? yes I feel ashamed.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Well, we passed the no civil unions amendment which embarrasses me because I think most people were just looking at the "Marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman" bit and not the bit where civil unions are pretty much screwed. Including heterosexual ones, thanks to the very vague wording.

BUT the big news of the day is our Senate race between Webb and Allen. Webb has a slight lead now but if he can hold on (and Montana ALSO holds on), then the Democrats will gain control of the Senate as well as the House.

How that affects us? Well, it's definitely a sign that a stronghold of RED is starting to turn purple, thanks to the changing demographics of Northern VA, which is becoming very much blue these days.

[arkiewriter.livejournal.com]

Out goes the Baptist Minister governor (thank goodness for term limits), in comes a Democrat. It was an UGLY race for governor this year, and oddly enough, the Independent who made his signs all on recycled materials gained more votes than the Green Party. I think a lot of folks voted for him as a protest vote because they didn't like either main party candidate.

Almost every other state office up for election went Democratic. Wierd how Arkansas always goes Republican at the national level for president. Our three Democratic House members all won re-election and the one Republican also retained his seat.

We also finally legalized charitable bingo and similar fundraising games. It's always failed before because they either attach it to a lottery or casino amendment, and Arkansas is still holding on screaming by its fingernails despite all the money that flows out-of-state to all of the border states who have casinos and lotteries.

I thought I was going to have trouble voting. In the morning, the line was out into the parking lot and folks were bringing chairs to sit in line. But I went after work. Got there at 5:15 and was home by 5:30. Hubby went down then and was back by 5:45. Fast!

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

Not much, directly. Our Democratic congressman was re-elected easily (yay) and our Republican senator was never seriously threatened, though it wouldn't hurt my feelings if he were suddenly a member of the minority party in the Senate.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Minnesota: DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) now controls both houses of the legislature. Republican governor re-elected. One incumbent Republican Congressman out.

"Nonpartisan" races (the parties make endorsements) in Minneapolis will be run differently in a couple of years.

[jonstephens.livejournal.com]

Yes! Cruz BustaMecha didn't win. Living in California, that's all I really cared about. How a man so aligned with an organization bent on returning CA to Mexico could ever have been in office before is beyond my comprehension. Citizens just don't do their research.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Well, our Democratic governor (Rendell) was re-elected, my local Congressman was booted out and replaced with a former Admiral (Sestak) that i made phone calls for, and, best of all, Man-on-Dog Santorum was handed his walking papers.

It was a beautiful night.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I'm in MN. We passed a cool referendum saying that taxes on cars should be used to maintain roads. We also elected the first ever Muslim to the House, and elected the first woman US Senator for our state. We also elected a raving lunatic, a "Born-again Evangelical Lutheran," to the House, but she's famous for always missing votes, and I don't think she'll affect anything.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

NH's now a blue state - House, Senate, Governor and Council all in Dem Hands.

Yay!!!!

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

In WI (state I go to college in): The Democratic governor was reelected after a tough race, as were the Representative and the Senator up for reelection (both Dems). However, the state passed the gay marriage ban (and by "the state" I mean the county that the UW-Madison is in was one of only two counties where the majority voted against it).

In MD (state I voted in and state I consider my "home" state): Our Republican governor is out, replaced by the Democratic mayor of Baltimore...mixed feelings on this because although I agree with the Dems I actually almost liked the governor, while I don't like the mayor of Baltimore much. One of our Senators resigned and another Dem was elected in his place after a very close race. All of the MD Representatives were reelected, both Dems and Republicans. My prediction: the Dems will run rampant in MD, since now they have the State Senate, the House of Delegates, _and_ the Governor. I may have voted for the Dems but I can't decide if this is a good thing as the power the Dems have in MD puts to shame the power the Republicans used to have in the US Senate and House.

[andelku.livejournal.com]

Not at all. Illinois is eerie in its unchangedness.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

It looks like our Senatorial racist, George Allen (R), whose main qualification for office was being the son of a pro football coach and who told a big whopping lie about his opponent to win his first major office, is all but out. Absentee ballots still need to be counted, but his opponent (former Reagan official-turned-novelist Jim Webb) had a 7100 vote lead as of a few minutes ago, with 99.88% of the non-absentee ballots counted.

Allen is hoping for an over-the-top boost from the military ballots, but those have been getting increasingly Democratic over the past few years. (Heck, a lot of them were in the 2000 election too, but Bush's team managed to have a lot of those thrown out.)

[roseyniswitrin.livejournal.com]

In Ohio, Dems now sit in the governor's office and in all the major seats of the statehouse (secretary of state, etc). It makes me deliriously happy that Ken Blackwell, the Rep. nominee for governor, lost in a LANDSLIDE to Ted Strickland. Blackwell was the crook who rigged the 2004 presidential election in Ohio (in many people's opinion, not just mine), and it made me sick to think he might actually get into the governor's mansion. Thank God people woke up!

We also won a Senate seat, with Sherrod Brown defeating Mike DeWine. We didn't get rid of Steve Chabot in our congressional district, but Ohio is definitely a little more purple today than it was yesterday. :-)

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

We elected quite a few democratic officials! Which I'm happy about because change and checks and balances are good, ya know. But all the progressive ammendments failed. And we've offically banned gay marriage. (I'm so embarassed for my state)

Well, up here in Washington...

[db-writer.livejournal.com]

We're pretty much fucked, like the rest of the country.

Biggest problem is North Korea can hit us with a nuclear missile.

Think I'll move to Idaho or something.