What Are the Election Results in Your State and Are You Happy?
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I'm in CA and Brown won the governor race and thankfully Boxer was reelected in the Senate, so there, I am happy.
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Nice that money can't buy an election every time, same with the WWE lady.
Nice that money can't buy an election every time, same with the WWE lady.
My representative was the only person on the ballot. His reelection was a foregone conclusion, but I'm glad of it, all the same. It's too bad the national results are so terrible; the Democrats deserved to lose, but the Republicans should never have been allowed to win (by the voters).
I'm in Massachusetts. The good news is that the Republicans all lost. The bad news is that the Democrats all won.
I live smack dab in angry redneck Kentucky, so of course Rand Paul got voted in 
Personally, I'm completely happy with the results. YMMV
We now have a state treasurer named Young Boozer! What's even funnier is he's the third generation with that name!
I'm in Missouri. Every single candidate or initiative I voted for lost (except maybe for an anti-puppy mill measure, which is neck-and-neck at the moment), so, no, not happy. The worst was Prop A, which has the potential to eventually bankrupt the only two metro areas in the state. The rich man who single-handedly bankrolled this initiative was brilliant: his measure forbids imposing earnings taxes wherever none yet exist (basically everywhere except St. Louis and Kansas City), and requires SL and KC to re-authorize the earnings tax every 5 years, or it goes away forever. Since the earnings tax is one third of St. Louis's budget, it would be a major loss of revenue. All the crackers outstate voted for it, of course, because they don't want no new taxes (even though no one was threatening to impose them), and they couldn't care less about the impact on the two cities.
You can hardly call it 'going GOP' when Sestak was only the 2nd Democrat elected in the district since the civil war.
I'm from MA and never happy with the idiots running the place. The republicans are crazy scumbag hypocritical (Balance budget? Bush spent us into the ground more in 8 years than the last 40+ presidents did in 210 years.) cunts and the democrats are cry baby wimps that won't do anything but sit and cry in the corner.
However I voted for D.A. and he lost and I'm really mad. The winner was on the news and the reporter asked "What are your plans now that you won?", his reply was "To form a transition team that will come up with the ideas of what we should do". The winner of the election isn't coming up with plans until weeks after he won!
Fuck you the thousands that voted for him, fuck you!
However the sales tax cut to 3% failed, so I still have MassHealth.
However I voted for D.A. and he lost and I'm really mad. The winner was on the news and the reporter asked "What are your plans now that you won?", his reply was "To form a transition team that will come up with the ideas of what we should do". The winner of the election isn't coming up with plans until weeks after he won!
Fuck you the thousands that voted for him, fuck you!
However the sales tax cut to 3% failed, so I still have MassHealth.
Hi, B.J.! I'm down in Mobile here.
I'm happy about Young Boozer.
And I'll be happy if we can at least stop the bingo hall raiding. I'm not very involved in politics, to be honest, so I'm not gnashing my teeth.
Well, I'm not happy my Congresswoman and Governor won re-election. But the opposing major party candidates did not appeal to me either, so I voted 3rd party.
As for the new leaders in Congress, you're on probation. People need to realize you don't have to defeat these guys in the general election by picking the lesser of 2 evils. Pick a primary candidate you like most from either party and vote for them in the primary. Then participate in the precinct and senate conventions. Yeah you'll be on that parties phone and mailing lists, but you can ignore them.
And remember, if you don't like the direction of your state and cannot wait around for it to change, vote with your feet.
As for the new leaders in Congress, you're on probation. People need to realize you don't have to defeat these guys in the general election by picking the lesser of 2 evils. Pick a primary candidate you like most from either party and vote for them in the primary. Then participate in the precinct and senate conventions. Yeah you'll be on that parties phone and mailing lists, but you can ignore them.
And remember, if you don't like the direction of your state and cannot wait around for it to change, vote with your feet.
Really, I've thought seriously about this. Unfortunately, it would have to wait until I retire, or at least until we've put all the kids through college.
I understand it is difficult decision. For some it isn't possible. But at least we have the right to make that choice. When people leave a state and their population decreases, they loose seats in the House.
"There is always a choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with a decision we have already made."
-Lady Morella, Babylon 5
I work in a very limited field. There are only 9,221 of us in the entire country. It's not impossible to find an opening somewhere, but for people I know who have moved and stayed in the field, especially when they wanted to move to a particular part of the country (and not just wherever they could get hired), it took them years.
