I voted a straight losing ticket here in Ohio. Not that I was expecting any wins. (I really wanted Josh Mandel to go, but no. At least he was the least popular of all the statewide Republicans, with “only” 57%.)
You may not believe this, but I voted straight-ticket Democratic tonight. Yes, really.
We only had three candidates. I can’t stand Corbett and Lou Barletta, who is my US Representative, has no business being such since his district was gerrymandered to include where I live. He’s a northeast guy, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre, and couldn’t really care less about us.
The other candidate was a family friend looking to unseat the incumbent from a state Congressional office, and since I’m a vote-the-bastards-out sort of person I ended up going Democratic across the board.
Wolf is going to try to do a lot of things I disagree with and I know it. I can only hope that the excesses will be tempered or, barring that, he will shoot himself in the foot and there will be a candidate better than Corbett in 2018. Then again, he’s a gun-control guy so shooting his own foot is highly unlikely (yuk yuk). The taxes I can live with. As for the proposed school spending increases, I can only ask: how much is enough? He’s working a typical Democratic platform, no real surprises, so at least I’m not blindsided by anything.
What a major disappointment Corbett turned out to be. Some of it was beyond his control, but his political acumen and judgment left much to be desired. His past actions, the ones that made me vote for him to begin with, turned out to be much less credible than I thought they were at the time. That’s bad on me for not doing my homework, but he rode the wave in. Now he gets to ride it out.
It’s all over now, but might as well join the thread.
I voted straight Republican. This being Texas, roughly half the local races were unopposed, with no Democrat challenger. Our voting machines allow you to pick a straight party ticket, then step thru all the candidates to allow single changes. I stepped thru everything on the ballot, but didn’t see any I wanted to change. I knew nothing about the few Libertarians on the ballot so I left it straight ticket.
Our city (Fort Worth) also had a new sports/multipurpose arena on the ballot, and I normally vote against anything of that nature. But this time they’re funding it entirely thru attendee fees and individual investors, so I voted yes. According to the early news, it passed by a wide margin.
So, when Tom Corbett spoke out against medical marihuana a while back, I began talking to my friends and encouraging them to vote. All told I got around 25 people to agree to vote against Corbett. This was 25 Pennsylvanians who otherwise would not have voted.
I’m pretending to have made a difference.
Baker, Kansan #2 here. I voted for Davis enthusiastically, and for Orman while holding my nose.
I was shocked to find out that Brownback won a second term. (Not surprised that Orman lost, though).
I was really happy to vote against that jerk Kobach for Attorney General, but I knew he’d win.
My vote for Senator, Mark Warner, won by the skin of his teeth – much closer than the polling indicated. At least he won. In a poor-turnout election for Democrats, I’m hopeful that this is an indication that VA is more-blue-than-purple state, and come Presidential elections, it’s only barely a swing state. Hopefully, VA is the kind of state that a Republican candidate can only win in a landslide.
Nothing like being in power to demonstrate that the R party is broken and can’t move forward on any item of importance. If the moderates coddle the conservatives, Obama will veto; if they don’t , it won’t get passed to get to Obama.
Net: another two years where the public’s impression of congress continues downward (I don’t know how it could get worse). Hard to believe that a public who despises congress so much decided they wanted even more of the same.
All politics is local.
Terrible defeats up and down the statewide ticket for Dems here in Ohio; a friend of mine who was running for state rep also lost. Ugh. At least I, too, got a sticker for voting.
People hate congress but love their congresspeople. We all want everyone else to toss their bums out.
The only contended race for me was Governor of Pennsylvania; your basic slash-what-I-can Republican incumbent against a basic uber-rich limo-liberal with zero political experience. I went for the evil I knew rather than shoot craps.
All Dems, all won except for Governor, including Seth Moulton for Congress. He’s a very impressive young man and you’ll be hearing more from him over the years.
Repeal gas tax indexing: No, but Yes won.
Expand bottle deposits: Yes, but No won.
Repeal casinos law: Yes, but No won (meaning we’re getting them)
Establish sick time guarantees, the first state to do so: Yes, and Yes won.