Virginia: GOP Senate takeover hangs on 86 votes. So the State Senate ends up tied with a Republican Lt. Gov. as the tiebreaker. Of course, with an 86 vote margin of victory you know there will be a recount. Honestly, I look at it as not such a bad result. It is Virginia after all and of the 5 Dems seen as vulnerable it appears they’ve held onto at least 3 of the seats.
And of course, even after more than a week of accusations of sexual harassment Herman Cain remains tied with Mitt Romney as the top choice among Republican voters to be the nominee.
It kinda makes you think these folks reeeaaaallllllyyyy hate Mormons, don’t it?
VERY happy about the Mississippi “NO” vote on the-- what was that called again? The “pregnant women are too stupid to think for themselves so we will think for them and take away their rights” amendment?
The language of this proposed law was so ambiguous and one-sided, hell, I thought it was a bible quote. Most likely from Exodus.
Religious groups like Personhood USA are not nearly powerful enough to make people question when it’s their individual rights that are being toyed with. As conservative and religious the Right wants to appear, it’s clear that even the conservatives are individuals, just like the left. Like the rest of us in the US, individuality is just as important.
Maybe that makes them appear a little more… liberal??
In Kentucky the Democrats took all but one of the statewide offices up for grabs. That doesn’t really mean anything nationally–KY is a weird state that way–but it’s hard not to draw parallels between our gubernatorial race and next year’s Presidential race.
The incumbent Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, has been competent at best. He has avoided any major scandals and can take credit for some economic development. However, he never misses an opportunity to distance himself from Obama or badmouth the EPA, and to get any further up the coal industry’s ass he’d need a hard hat and pickaxe. The left pretty solidly abandoned him, mostly going to perennial Libertarian candidate and nutjob Gatewood Galbraith (the only opponent of mountaintop removal mining in the race).
IMO, even against the advantage of incumbency, a half-decent Republican should have been able to beat him. The problem was that there wasn’t a half-decent Republican to be found. His opponent was David Williams, longtime legislator, president of the state Senate, and one of the more genuinely unlikeable people to run for office in recent memory. He was always known as something of a moderate until he realized which way the wind was blowing two years ago and started sucking up to the Tea Partiers. His running mate was Richie Farmer–former beloved UK basketball star, current commissioner of agriculture, and demonstrable moron.
Beshear won by 22 points, with a full 9% going to Gatewood.
So we have a Democratic incumbent without a lot to recommend him against a Republican party with a bench so shallow that it had to nominate someone nobody really liked. It’s not a perfect analogy for a lot of reasons, but if you’re looking for a reason to feel the tiniest bit better about 2012 it will do.
In Iowa, The Iowa State Senate is held by Democrats by one vote. So far, that is the only thing that has stopped Governor Helmethead from dragging us down to Wisconsin levels. Helmethead tried to break the stalemate by buying off a Blue Dog Dem who has been a shill for MidAmerica Power to an job overseeing utilities and putting her seat into play. The Dems retook the seat by a big margin and now are facing a loud call to answer this political move by voting against her appointment to this board.
In Arizona, I moved recently out from Mesa, technically I could had voted against that prick Pierce but I was too honest. In any case, the contributing efforts that my family made to the campaign to get rid of him were not in vain.
That ridiculous person hood movement started here in Colorado. I was pleasantly surprised to see it fall in Mississippi, the one state that I figured it would have a chance of passing.
Evidently there are about six other states where they are trying to get on the ballot.
On a related note, the voters in several jurisdictions here in Georgia have voted to allow the sale of <gasp> beer and wine at grocery stores on <double-gasp> Sundays!
Honestly, y’all, many of us here have been waiting FOR DECADES for certain elements ensconced in the Georgia Legislature to finally die and/or retire so that the local populations could vote on this.
Now, of course, I live in Athens, where the local council decided to postpone the issue because, “…they are concerned that Sunday sales could draw opponents to the polls who also would vote against the Education Local Option Sales Tax.” <CITE> Oh well, I guess we will have to drink and drive if we want to watch the NFL at a bar on Sundays in Athens.
Does this apply to only grocery stores or will it also apply to convenience stores who carry food and drink items? I work for a retailer that has a couple thousand stores in GA and I’m wondering if this allows us to sell beer like we do in other states.
Yes. It applies to all of the places where beer and wine are currently sold.
Until this, Georgia was only one of two (or three) states to restrict alcohol sales in this manner.
Washington has finally voted out the antiquated notion of state-run liquor stores that prevails here in the PNW. One will now be able to buy booze in regular grocery stores and at member places like Costco. Mini-marts are excluded. It’s positively 19th century of them. Now if Oregon would just follow suit. . .
