My beloved Tammy is our new senator and her replacement as my congress critter, yclept Raja Krishnamoorthi, creamed his opponent to become the first Hindu US representative.
Pretty well I thought, here in my Washington State district. Our U.S. Senator is Patty Murray and my U.S. Congressional Representative is Adam Smith.
The state senate and house moved Democratic, although very mildly. I think we added a senator and a couple of representatives, although I haven’t seen an article describe that in a way that is easy to read. All my picks won.
The state executive went Democratic where applicable with the exception of the Secretary of State. I think the incumbent Republican there is probably fine so no great loss.
Local measures were a mixed bag, but I didn’t lose any that I felt very strongly about. The ST3 light rail and bus expansion was probably the one I felt strongest about, and that passed with a significant lead. The minimum wage increase passed.
My representatives were shoo-ins, no contest there. But I *really *wanted the local rent control initiative to pass, and it failed.
Well, we got rid of Sheriff Joe, which is a great thing.
People-wise - not so great. I think my choice for House Representative, who was essentially unopposed (I didn’t even know who the opponent was until I received my sample ballot), was the only one who won. I didn’t have a strong preference for Senator, as they are both Democrats, and are almost identical policy-wise. I went for Sanchez since she has 20 years of legislative experience in the House, whereas Harris seems to have sprung forth from the San Francisco machine 6 years ago already anointed by the state party to be the next big thing.
Measure-wise: All but 2 of the 17 ballot propositions here in California went my way. The two death penalty ones (62 & 66) were the only ones I didn’t get.
Locally, I split. I was OK with increasing my property tax for parks and beaches, but I was against raising our already high (9%) sales tax so the chronically mismanaged transit authority can piss the extra money away on half-assed traffic solutions. “Let’s take money away from buses that people actually ride, and spend it on rail that nobody rides because it doesn’t go anywhere people want to go, because rail is sexy. Then ask for more money so we can redesign the opened lines to make them useful so someone will actually ride, instead of doing it right the first time.” Both passed.
All 4 state ballot questions and a local one passed, I only wanted 1, and was negative or ambivalent about the rest.
Didn’t vote for Senate for petty reasons.
From your state, certainly, but nope.
Hawaii’s a state? It wasn’t in 1961. Okay, he’s the first one that didn’t cause me to say, “Day-am, girl! Look at your bad self!”
I couldn’t be prouder of Nevada. We successfully defended Harry Reid’s Senate seat, electing Catherine Cortez Masto (the first Latina senator) - winning that race also got Joe Heck out of Congress. Three of our four incoming representatives are Dems, for a net gain of two seats there. And for what it’s worth, Clinton won the state by more than 2%.
In the state races, Dems gained majorities in both the Senate and the Assembly. We passed a referendum requiring further background checks for gun transfers and another legalizing recreational marijuana use (although it’s still against federal law). A friend of mine won his race for city council.
It was an enormously encouraging result on a state level.
All the Republicans won. John McCain, Martha McSally. Legal marijuana lost. But the minimum wage increase passed to $10.00 an hour next year and to $12.00 by 2020.
Turd of an R was reelected by about a dozen votes out of 13,000.
In my state legislative district and in the 1st Congressional district of Idaho, we elected all Republican candidates, as expected.
We elected Robin Brody to the Idaho State Supreme Court.
In Shoshone County we voted out the only Republican County Commissioner. Good riddance, Leslee Stanley.
I’m not pleased with my state or national representatives and senators, but this is Idaho.
To the OP: Crappily. I REALLY wanted (and expected) Russ Feingold to regain his Senate seat. He would have, if he didn’t happen to be from one of the three now-famous “more-white-assholes-came-out-to-vote-than-expected” states*
*the other two being Michigan and Pennsylvania, of course. Iowa and Ohio (and I guess North Carolina) were already lost causes, while Minnesota also got a bunch of white assholes to go to the polls – but it lucked out and kept its image intact, only because Hillary happened to barely win there – just like Virginia. (What about Florida? I never gave it much thought. I haven’t trusted that state to do anything right, since the 2000 screwup.)
Pretty well actually. All the state executives offices went blue. US Representative & state legislator are both red, but I was expecting that. The latter office was unopposed.
Senator Schumer and Congresswoman Slaughter were both re-elected.
West Virginia’s downballot was schizoid.
President and House : All Republican.
Governor and State Treasurer : Democrat.
All other Statewide offices : Republican.
Republicans lost one seat in the House of Delegates, gained a few in the State Senate. We remain under Republican control, and I expect the downward spiral of the last two years to continue.
The guy I voted for in the Congressional race won, which is good – but the primary reason I voted for that Republican was to check Hillary Clinton, who I kept hearing was going to sweep into the White House as the Democrats retook the Senate.
So, yeah.
I lost every race I voted in, by very wide (like 30%+) margins. Except for mayor, where my candidate only lost by a nail-biting 9%.
Thanks for rubbing it in.