On the two biggest contests, Mississippi’s Initiative 26 aka Personhood (AP) and Ohio’s Union Busting bill (Latest results), the good guys won walking away by double digit margins. I feel good!
But the bad guys made a few gains also. More results, links, and comments below the fold courtesy of Daily Kos Eelections.
Statewide Results: KY | ME | MS | NJ | NY | OH | PA | VA
Specific Races: AZ-SD-18 | IA-SD-18 | MI-HD-51 | OR-01
Called races: All KY statewide races (D), except Ag Commish (James Comer, R) | All MS statewide races (R), except AG (Jim Hood, D) | OH Issue 2 (good guys) | ME Question 1 (good guys) | MS Initiative 26 (good guys) | AZ-SD-18 (Sen. Russell Pearce, R, recalled) | IA-SD-18 (Liz Mathis, D) | MI-HD-51 (Rep. Paul Scott, R, recalled)
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 9:15 PM PT (Steve Singiser): One set of races we haven’t spent a lot of time on tonight is the battle for control of the Mississippi legislature. There are still a lot of precincts to count, and it looks like control of the House will be a coinflip. If current form holds, the GOP will narrowly take the state House, as they currently have leads in 62 districts, versus 60 for the Dems. In the state Senate, it’s looking like the 27-25 GOP split pre-election is likely to hold.
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 9:22 PM PT (Steve Singiser): Another state legislature that was decided tonight was in the Garden State. The status quo essentially prevailed, as the Democrats picked up a single seat in the state Assembly and held serve in the state Senate. The sole Democratic pickup came in the once-split 4th district, which went all Democratic after redistricting moved Republican Domenick DiCicco to the 3rd district, where he was defeated.
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 9:26 PM PT (Steve Singiser): Meanwhile, out west, we only have absentees in San Francisco’s mayoral election, but it looks like there is a clear leader. Interim Mayor Ed Lee leads with 40%, well ahead of John Avalos (11%) and Dennis Herrera (10%).
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 9:49 PM PT (Steve Singiser): One other race still uncalled is the Spokane Mayoral race, where Mayor Mary Verner is trailing former GOP Hill staffer David Condon by a 52-48 margin. This one is far from final, though, with as many as 40,000 ballots left to count. We will, as you would expect, have a full wrap-up of tonight’s results in the morning. Thanks for following along with what was, on balance, a pretty good night for the good guys.
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 10:02 PM PT (Steve Singiser): This might be a bit deep in the weeds, but a pleasant surprise: in a special election in Missouri’s HD-15 (St. Charles), the Republican (Chrissy Sommer) is clinging to a 38-vote lead over Democrat Paul Woody. This is a district the GOP easily carried (60-36) last time around.
Tue Nov 08, 2011 at 10:14 PM PT (Steve Singiser): Slight correction, courtesy of the comments: for the Spokane Mayoral race, that 40,000 outstanding vote figure was for the county, not just the city. But with a margin of less than 2000 votes at last check, even half of that could be relevant to the outcome. Also, Dems technically lost their seat in Missouri HD-83 tonight, but the winner was a Democrat who filed as an Independent after not getting the Democratic nod. One would assume she will caucus with the Democrats.
Sadly I’m in Virginia, which is now solely under control of the most anti-science AG and the most anti-gay/women/middle class governor I’ve ever known. Republicans took over both House and Senate, and I’m pretty sure that Bob McAsshole and the Troglodyte Cuccinelli are going to use the next few years to tear down any hope of progress in this schizophrenic state.
I’m in the same place as Katherine. The GOP have continued to make in-roads even at the local levels. My county’s Board of Supervisors will continue down a GOP controlled path which is on track to make the county broke in 10 years or less (just like the national level, the local GOP is perfectly happy to push county debts to the limit). Since the BoS controls all money, they will continue to put the school board behind the gun to somehow provide sufficient education in one of the fastest growing counties in the nation but with minimal to no increases in school budget.
The state level (as Katherine pointed out) is not looking any better.
Once again, the masses have voted against their own interests because they fail to take the time to understand what is going on around them. If it isn’t religion directly, it is religious like thought that magical things happen whether things go well or not, so they continue to vote for the best sound-bite instead of what is actually best for the people of Virginia.
Sorry to hear that … at least you get another crack at ’em and the rotten system a year from now.