Live chatLogged in via Facebook and couldn’t get the live chat to work.  Anyway what I wanted to say here where we live in NH the voter list is all in notebooks with 25 names per page along with address and party.  When you come into vote they check off your name. I voted 15 minutes before the end of voting.  I glanced over the page my name was on.  About 3 Republicans and 4 independents had voted, not one Democrat until I voted.  There were about 8 Democrats listed. Not good.

“Bloodbath or business as usual”Those are not mutually exclusive options, alas.

I predict bloodbathBut then, I predicted that a year ago.

that is depressing

Yes, but you also predicted that DADT wouldn’t get repealed…oh, wait.
dang.

At least O’Donnell’s not in.Now if Novotny beats Kern I’ll be happy.

New HampshireWe lost a Senator (Gregg – retired) who voted about 20% on gay rights and now have a Senator(Ayotte)who is even against gay adoption.  The bright side is Lynch seems to have beaten Stephan so gay marriage should be safe here for the next two years even though Lynch is not been a keen gay marriage supporter in the past.

SafeWhen I say gay marriage is safe it depends on the Republicans not gaining a veto proof majority in the Legislature.  What is scary, I’m watching the results on local TV and it seems Democrats are the only incumbents losing.

Here in Pittsburghsomeone shot up a polling place this afternoon.  At least eight rounds were fired.  The polling place and the one adjacent to it were under lockdown for about 2 hours.  Two people have been arrested.  So far there’s no word about motive, but it’s not hard to suspect they’re teabaggers.  More later.

Another view:Tensions were high after a pair of teens exchanged gunfire between two North Side polling places this afternoon, an incident that startled voters but apparently was not Election Day-related.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg…

DisasterLooks like the State Senate may be going from a Democratic majority to 23 – 1 Republican. So far 18 State Senators have been declared winners, all Republican. There are only 2 Democats leading in their districts and one by a tiny margin. If this follows into the State Representative side of the Legislature it may be the end of gay marriage here.

RepresentativesLooks like New Hampshire has gone from two democratic Representatives in Congress to Two Republican Reps.  what a depressing nite….

Iowa Supreme Court JusticesLess than one percent of the precincts, but…

Not a good trend nevertheless.

It gets worseOur district has 13 state representatives.  It has been 10 Republican and 3 Democratic.  After tonight its going to be 10 to 0 Republican.  Good night I’m going to bed.

We lost the election.
Because Republicans are almost as bad as Democrats.
Clinton and his gangof economic advisors, all of whom had a financial stake in deregulation, rammed through the Republican deregulation bill, causing the current Depression. Democrats and Republicans both voted overwhelmingly for deregulation.
George Bush called the looter class his base and rammed through tax breaks for them, increasing the economic nose dive begun by Clinton.
Obama busted the UAW contract, supported and implemented TARP and other programs to make the rich richer, including the boondoggle ‘stimulus’ handout, handouts to insurance companies disguised as ‘health care’ and compensating big investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It all adds up to trillion in the largest criminal transfer of wealth in human history.
Obama’s refusal to take back those trillions and use them to create green jobs and a rebuilt, green infrastructure means those 15 million are going to unemployed for a long, long time.
Within months the Republicans polling numbers will plummet, and so will Obama’s if the follows their lead, which he’s done up to this point. OR he may play Truman and use his veto pen. We’ll know part of the answer tomorrow.    
They’ll be no more change this time around than there was from the elections of 2006 and 2008. The wars go on and on, the rich get richer with the help of both parties and young GLBT people continue to die at the hands of murderers and hate mongering bigots who oppose our agenda.
Same old, same old. It’s ugly.

It gets worseOur district has 13 state representatives.  It has been 10 Republican and 3 Democratic.  After tonight its going to be 10 to 0 Republican.  Good night I’m going to bed.

I voted for Marshallas well as other dems, although honestly I hold some animus towards the dems for their spinelessness. What i’m most concerned about at this point is how the appellate court judge election results came back. Quite a few conservative judges running (some out loud as conservative or taunting their christianity and anti- “judicial activism” positions).  

Well , we knew this was comingI am sorry for Patrick Murphy; he was a fine, principled man who in a nation that did not allow unlimited corporate contributions, would have been re-elected.
Most of the rest, not so much.
Well, Republicans, time “fer y’all to govern, to take from the poor and give to the rich”
Let’s see just how palatable your dreams of 1890 are in two years.

crap
http://twitter.com/briansbrown

It only took them 2 days into the session last timeto introduce the constitutional discrimination amendment into the senate in the last session.  now that they control it…
and w/ redistricting they get to lock this in for the next 10 years.
i’m so depressed about this.

Remember…The day that the NH Senate voted (narrowly) FOR gay marriage, they voted unanimously against granting trans people the same rights that gays have enjoyed there for a decade.
On that day, the Dems lost the moral high ground. They threw away their best and only weapon.
If Gay(Inc) are only interested in “equality” when it means “I’ve got my place in the lifeboat, the rest can go swim”, then why should straights give a darn about them?
This isn’t “Kama”, or “justice”, because to deny gay marriage is injustice personified. It’s political miscalculation, because sometimes doing the expedient thing to gain a short-term win will cause a loss in the long term.

All three are consistently polling <50%They’re out.
Very bad news.

The trend is continuingFrom the Des Moines Register – as of 10:30 central time:

The three Iowa Supreme Court justices on the retention ballot are all below the 50 percent needed to keep them on the bench, with more than half of all statewide precincts reporting.
All three justices are currently around 47 percent support, with 54 percent of all precinct results reported.
On the ballot are Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus, and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit.

On the other hand:

Iowa voters on Tuesday passed up the once-in-a-decade opportunity to call a state constitutional convention, defeating the mandatory ballot measure by a 2-to-1 majority.

The upshot: If this holds, same-sex marriage is safe from a possible immediate constitutional amendment vote but, depending on how the party control shapes up in the legislature, it could still be in jeopardy via the regular amendment process (which requires passage in two separate legislative sessions and then a referendum.)  However, a re-animated, not-anywhere-near-as-moderate-as-people-have-been-claiming Republican Gov. Terry Branstad – who signed the anti-gay-marriage law that the Iowa Supreme Court invalidated – will (I assume; I have to admit that I don’t know and, given that this is the first time any Iowa Sup Ct justices have been ejected, I’m not sure who all else knows either) get to appoint the three replacements plus any other vacancies that might occur over the next four years.
I can’t see same-sex marriage being revisited soon, but its only a matter of time before a trans case brought under the 2007 Iowa ENDA makes it up to the state’s high court.  
I think it will be ugly.

California is coming inThe news is mostly good. Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, Gavin Newsom. McInerney loses in the 11th District, damn it. Prop 23 crashed and burned, good news there. Steeve Cooley winning the AG race, which suggest California may contest Prop 8 after all. Prop 19 on pot legalization losing.
And the nationwide results suggest two years of silly government, and Monty Python takes the credits. This is largely as I predicted, except that the Silly Party won. This may have something to do with the number of votes cast.
http://www.livevideo.com/video…
Oh, and Michael, this one’s for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fitful lightning
Of his terrible swift sword ..

Worse than just GLBTIt means that Supreme Court Justices are now not just removed for corruption etc. – as has been the case with the four in the past – but for irritating any sufficiently financially powerful group.
A Potload of out-of-state money was spent on the campaign against them, $60,000 ads by FotF etc.
Rule against a large company, or a union, or a megachurch… and you lose your job.
I do not consider this to be a desirable state of affairs.

New for Iowa; old news elsewhereIn states such as Texas (where I grew up and went to law school), where judges run for office on partisan tickets/platforms, this is nothing new.  The Texas Supreme Court has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry for many years now; the year that I graduated from law school, a Republican criminal court judge in Houston was booted out in the primary for being too soft on crime – despite having personally killed a person who he caught in the act of a criminal offense on the streets of downtown Houston.
I work and go to school in Iowa, but I live in Illinois – and one of its Supreme Court justices was up for retention this year.  He was also subjected  to a massively-funded anti-retention campaign, though he survived.  His crime?  He made a ruling that the insurance industry didn’t like.  

some bright spots in RIThe bad news from around the country is depressing as hell, but for what it’s worth, here are some bright spots from here in Rhode Island. Lincoln Chafee won the governor’s race. He’s an independent now (used to be one of the last of the liberal Republicans) and has promised to sign a marriage equality bill. (And he’s not lying–he is a true believer on the issue.) We have the votes in the RI House, and if the advocates work really hard and really smart, hopefully they can get it through the RI Senate, too. Marriage Equality RI had volunteers at polling places today collecting postcards from voters who support marriage equality. We also gained our first out lesbian state senator, Donna Nesselbush, and our three out state reps kept their seats.
David Cicilline, the openly gay mayor of Providence, was elected to Congress in RI’s first congressional district. While he hasn’t been the greatest mayor, he is one of the smartest people I know and is much better in a legislative environment than as an administrator (he was a great state rep back in the day.) He will make us all proud.

Two words….Primary Challenge. If Obama continues to play nice with the Republicans he’ll end up losing to another Democrat in 2012. I really think that’s what this election’s about.  

Unlike a partisan electionThe Judges don’t have financial backers themselves. This is supposed to be non-partisan.
Kat – my impression of Illinois is that it’s a political sewer. The only thing stopping one party from having the other impeached is that they’re just as corrupt themselves.
Am I right?

State SenateI couldn’t stay in bed – had to get up and listen. The state senate ended up 21 -3 Republican with only 16 votes needed to over ride a veto by the Governor.  The results in the House races are not all in but it looks like gay marriage is on the rocks here in NH.

very good indeedObama needs a challenge, especially if he does a Pierre Laval on us — which he has more or less done already. We need a Democratic presidential-primary challenge à la Eugene McCarthy, or maybe a third-party challenge à la Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
Let the revels begin. By 2012 the times will be dire enough. Plutocracy was victorious tonight, not the people in the 3-corner hats. Read Paul Krugman if you’re not sure of this.

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.
From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
The deliberate betrayal of its trust by the Republican party, the fatal incapacity of the Democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time, have compelled the people to forge a new instrument of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions.
Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed by the magnitude of the task, the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses, to build a new and nobler commonwealth.
– Progressive Party platform, 1912

IMHOI could be wrong here… but I don’t think he’s “playing nice”. I think he’s so far out of his depth you’d need a bathyscaphe to find him, even if he was in a paddling pool.
I don’t think I’d do as well, of course. It’s not an easy job.

LOL, Coram…..
…you know me too well. LOL.
A needed note of levity in a hideous night. Anyone have any suggestions for how we could punish the goddamn, shameless, self-loathing, scum sucking Logheads for having endorsed Patrick Murphy’s opponent when he single-handedly worked at least as hard to repeal the ban in Congress as they did in court?
And, no, it’s NOT enough that the Repugs they supported will be punishing them soon.
Dear Barry,
Do us a favor. You can be to 2012 what LBJ was to 1968…someone who realizes he’s so toxic that you choose not to run for reelection.
Your biggest fan,
M

What is neededIs a GOP candidate that is halfway sane.
How bad is Obama? He makes Hillary Clinton look good.
How bad is McCain? He makes Obama look good.
How bad is the GOP leadership? McCain’s the best they’re likely to offer.
Jeez.

or he could run …And be the William Howard Taft of 2012, albeit a lot slimmer.
I still think that rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic was a splendid moment.

Forget your troubles c’mon get happy,
you better chase all your cares away.
Shout hallejulah c’mon get happy
get ready for the judgement day.

halfway sane?I look forward to seeing how the establishment GOP will govern the new senators from Wisconsin, Colorado, Pennsylvania. They’re going to be a handful.

Forget your troubles c’mon get happy,
you better chase all your cares away.
Shout hallejulah c’mon get happy
get ready for the judgement day.

I personally think it’ll be DeanThat challenges Obama in the Dem primary in 2012. He’ll win, too. Lets remember who knows Obama’s strategy pretty damn well.  

I’m with you, JakeI cannot tell you how hard this flip of the state house is. ENC had to fight tooth and nail to get the small gains (bullying bill, comp sex ed), and the “coattails” of Obama’s poor governance (compounded by being left with Bush’s mess), has hurt states that were swinging Blue.
He deserves a challenge for screwing up otherwise positive trends in emerging states.
It’s depressing. Now we have to see what support we receive from our Blue State peers and gay orgs when the amendment fight begins.  

I assume Equality NC is going to lead the charge right?I mean outside groups helping would be great.  But I want the most bang for my buck, donate to & volunteer for Equality NC right?

Also, this would be passed via ballot referendum right?So it has to be 2011 or 2012 that it’ll happen right?  Is there any chance we can delay this to 2012?  2011 is an off-off year election, I see no way that progressives will turn out then.  And the longer we wait, the more time for people’s attitudes to change.
Is there anyway to delay this to 2012?  Is 2011 when they’ll target it for?

For some pleasanter news…I know you are itching for some pleasanter news, so I’m here to give it to you, from the Aloha State.
1. Nearly all the votes are in, and Hawai’i has elected Neil Abercrombie to be its next governor. Based on his past, he will be the most liberal governor Hawai’i has had since the early ’60s. We just hope he doesn’t wimp out on us.
2. Our new lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, is also a liberal.
3. Before tonight, the state senate had 23 Democrats and 2 Republicans. After tonight, it will have 24 Democrats and just 1 Republican. (Realize, though, that several of those Democrats are actually DINOs.)
4. Honolulu’s Republican U.S. Congressman, who won in a fluke special election a few months ago, has lost his seat, albeit to a lackluster Democrat. To my knowledge, this is only one of two Congressional seats in the nation to have passed from Republican to Democratic in this election. (The other one is in Delaware.)
5. The openly gay house majority leader, Blake Oshiro, who introduced the civil unions bill here, has been re-elected.
6. Kim Coco Iwamoto, a member of our statewide Board of Education (there are no local boards) and a transgender woman, has been re-elected to a second term. (Her tenure may be short, however, since the state also passed an amendment to the state constitution that will now allow for the governor to appoint all members of the Board of Education.)
I can’t say that Hawai’i is really a liberal state, but it isn’t conservative either, and it never swallowed the tea party nonsense nearly as much as the Mainland seems to have.
So, if you don’t mind spending $1,300 a month for a small, ugly apartment, if you don’t mind spending $3.40 a gallon for gas, and if you don’t mind spending twice what you currently do for milk and eggs, you can live here. (Wages are low, but unemployment is fairly low, too.)

Harris has closed the Gap a bitI looked at the LA Times and they had
Cooley 46.4%
Harris 45.1%
Which is a huge leap since when I found it a couple hours ago.
All is not lost.

Other Good NewsWWE’s Linda McMahon lost.
The Masturbation Witch last!
Ok that’s all I got.  

Things will be worse still in 2012But they’ll be a lot better around 2014.

Unless tonight seriously changes Democrats’ minds about Obama…Nobody in their right mind would challenge him.  He has about 80% approval among Democrats.  That will plunge after tonight, true, but it will come right back up once he starts talking tough to the House GOP.
He died very recently, so we’re all thinking sweet thoughts about Ted Kennedy, but he did a lot of damage to himself when he challenged Carter.
Obama is still unlikely to lose against a GOP challenger, largely because they don’t have a serious contender.  Romney, maybe?  Huckabee?  Neither of those men can stand on a stage with Barack Obama and leave looking like a president.
As much as I love Howard Dean (I’d vote for him over Obama any day,) we need him back in charge at the DNC, not trying to take down a Democratic president.

Hope lies in West. As a Oklahoman I cried as the expected results came in.. Repuglican Senate, House and now Governor.. Sally Kern rides again. Coburn returns because he his chosen by C street an GAWD… We passed English official language, Repeal Health care, Voter ID requirments, Not to fund our Schools equally to the Surrounding states but ensured our Legislators are the highest paid in the region.. OH yea and Sharia law ban .. and lets see what else … oh it goes on and on and on and the future seems to be very bleak for those of us GLBT folks in this State. Once home to Will Rogers never a better spoken liberal in all of american history.. Oh yea we banned gay marriage Years ago into the constitution of the state of Oklahoma.. Ever read the Okla Republican platform ?? this is who are now in “COMPLETE CONTROL ”
http://www.okgop.com/atf/cf/%7…
So after a night of sadness and heartache i find a glimer of hope in the West coast.. We use to have a saying here in Fly over country .. What happens in Calif take 2 years to make its way to oklahoma.. fashions , trends , voting etc.. and now with the realization of the economics of Repuglicanism it leads to a falling apart of the society as a whole. So maybe now Calif will lead the way improve the tax base with taxs and do what governments are supose to do.. Fire police water roads safety .. fund them fully and Education for all students not just wealthy charter schools and private..  
In this darkness i hold hope and see light from the west in this RED DIRT Sandstorm from the Dustbowl days… For so goes California so will the rest of the country in time..
Come on Cali Dems have a Fn backbone and do what is right.. unlike the dems who lost yesterday because they tried to get along and be nice.. Do whats right and Nice will follow..  May god have mercy on my homestate soon..  

He triedHe kept trying to play nice with the big rabid dog and the dog kept biting him. It’s not really happening so much, but it was key in the health care debacle when the democrats went back again and again and again trying to win some kind of support.
That set a tone for the Republicans that they could boss the democrats around and it was the effective end of his presidency’s ability to really move legislation.

New Hampshire a DisasterBrian Brown is already announcing the anti gay marriage crowd has a veto proof majority in NH and as far as I can determine he’s right.  I don’t think gay marriage was the reason people voted the way they did but the vote will have unintended consequences.

Actually, your characterization is an insult to good, honest sewers everywhereThere  was even an amendment on the ballot here to allow for the recall of governors.  It passed – but it is so poorly constructed (it gives some voters in some areas of the state more power than others – a big no-no – in the initial stages of putting a recall on the ballot) that almost anyone with any knowledge of law agrees that it will be declared unconstitutional.

Ohio too!For decades the Oho Supreme Court’s been the same way — kowtows to the insurance giants and big business.

Sad day for OhioNot only did Ohio elect two architects of the Bush economic disaster (Kaisch as gov, Portman in Senate), we lost the House, and no doubt all of the other state offices, too.
Look for Ohio to lose even more jobs and benefits for the poor, and the rich getting richer.
As Bette Davis said in All About Eve: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Only it’s going to be a bumpy two years.
Look for the GOP to gut everything Obama was able to pass, and maybe even run another impeachment run.
What really pisses me off is that Americans were looking for an instant fix to a problem that started in the Reagan 80s: gut the poor, give to the rich, and eliminate all unions and industrial jobs in the US. Reagan’s goons claimed that we could survive on a service economy, and they could be no more wrong.
Hang on, folks, it’s going to get worse.

Good news, indeedI’m beginning to regret leaving. Honey, you guys better get marriage equality in the next couple of years! Don’t settle for less!

Congratulations…This is the outcome folks here wanted. They wanted to “hurt” the Democrats.
Well, guess what, they are hurt. The only problem is that in the end the party won’t suffer. Its your agenda that is now officially DEAD.
The sad irony of all of this is that the one part of the government that actually passed progressive legislation, the House, is now in the hands of the GOP.
So congratulations…you got the outcome that you wanted. Now you get to live with the fallout.

Is blame the gays all you got?I don’t even see many of the pundits doing that but…oh, well, whatever floats your boat.

MinnesotaIt looks as though both the Minnesota House and Senate flipped to the christianist party.
Guarantee: next election will have an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment to whip up the christianist vote.
The governor’s race is still in flux, though at the moment the Democrat – odorless, colorless Mark Dayton – leads be a handful.  
If that changes, then another guarantee: The state’s gay rights law will be history before the ice disappears from Lake Minnetonka.
Are ya happy Rahm?

BlameThe right wing of this country has learned well from the fundamentalist right.  How do you control your congregation and keep the money rolling in? Instill fear, the fear of gays, foreigners, and anyone different and blame them for everything bad that happens.   Most of the people I’ve talked to that voted Republican have no idea what’s going on and to a person get their news from one source, Fox.  
The Republicans have it easy.  When you write and say negative comments about someone and you don’t care about truth, it’s the easiest thing in the world.  It’s much harder to speak when you are hampered by the truth.
“May you live in interesting times” an ancient Chinese curse.

Irony alertAnd its the Republicans who complain most about the US Supreme Court’s decision in NY Times v. Sullivan, which pretty much put an end to defamation lawsuits in America (at least any meaningful ones.)
If today’s christianist party had to worry about ever having to answer for its lies….
well, it wouldn’t even exist.

Ok so I’m reading….New Hampshire, North Carolina, Minnesota, Iowa will be able to showcase their homophobic selves and roll back, halt, squash equal rights on the state level.
On the federal level, forget it, move along, nothing new here.  
Kids will keep killing themselves.  Will heterosexuals who value all humans make any noise?  I’m not holding my breath.

let me know who to donate to.I can help that way.

Thanks for the RI updateand the email lists reviewing candidates.

harris seems to be in the leadMost precincts in and she has a slight edge. Looks like California mostly bucked the trend.

Agreed…And it’ll be interesting to see in the next couple of days if Obama gets his head out of his hindquarters and offers Dean his DNC job back. It’ll be an indication of if Dean does challenge Obama in the primary-and Dean’s the only one with the apparatus and the ‘star quality’ to do it. Hillary is now loyal to Obama (which is not a bad thing)due to her Secretary of State job and there’s no other Democrat who has the ground game to beat him.
No, the GOP has nobody. Mittens? Palin? Huckapee? No. So, it’s a very different ball game than it was in 1980-but the potential for a challenge is still there. Obama has to get off his duff and stop acting like a weak President.  

Introduce Voter ID like in Europe …… and then steal the elderly’s voter ID. A “hide your grandma’s id” campaign like in Poland. It may be election fraud, but so what …

he’s still tryingPresser today in which Obama said he still wants to work with the GOP. If that’s true, he’s as delusional as ever. Especially now that most of the Blue Dogs are gone and don’t need coaxing any more.

… Interesting that the Blue Dogs helped cripple Health Care Reform and climate change legislation, yet they still lost.  So why did the Democratic leadership and the President listen to these people?
As we’ve always said, even if you try to appease the Republicans by voting their way, by cutting back your proposals and making them more conservative, they’ll still call you a dirty f’g hippy by the time the next election rolls around.
– Aravosis

http://www.americablog.com/201…

Obama’s still out of itKrugman just wrote him off.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c…

Urk. I just gave up on the presidential press conference. When Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats in part because “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn’t change how things got done,” I checked out.
– Paul Krugman

more from CaliforniaMcInerney is now leading by 121 votes in the 11th U.S. District. Not a great mandate, given that the conservative vote was split by an American Independent Party candidate, but, oh, well, it’s all over but the recount.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…
Kamala Harris appears to have a thin lead for Attorney General. Given that her opponent wanted to defend Prop 8 in court, it’s a good thing. Oh, and San Francisco has to find itself a new mayor all of a sudden: Gavin Newsom appears to have won Lt. Governor.
On the down side, the ballot props appear to be regressive in fiscal terms. Prop. 25 did pass: majority vote on budget, but Prop. 26 also passed, 2/3 requirement on state fees. Prop. 23 (repeal climate change) failed 60-40, good news there.

If Obama had used fancy footwork and 2 AM sessions to pass a big public works program, and this program had brought unemployment down, Republicans would be screaming about the process – and Democrats would have comfortably held control of Congress. Remember the voter backlash against the way Medicare drug benefits were passed? Neither do I.
– Paul Krugman, today

One bit of good news in NChttp://www.gaypolitics.com/201…

Brandon will be the only openly LGBT state legislator in North Carolina, and one of just five openly LGBT African-Americans serving in state legislatures across the country (including Maryland House of Delegates candidate Mary Washington, who will also win tonight).

Julia Boseman, an openly lesbian senator in the General Assembly was stepping down this election season, so its nice to see that Marcus Brandon will be stepping up and giving our community continuous representation in the legislative body.  

“Our” agenda was dead the minute Obama was anointedThank you, by the way, for re-confirming that the LGBT rights agenda isn’t your agenda.  Just another straight person coming to lecture the gays.

As Sirota put it–Republicans won, but in Colorado, their agenda lostAll three Greed Initiatives went down 3-1.  Personhood also went down 3-1.  The “Healthcare is a Right of the Fabulously Wealthy” amendment went down 55-45.  
Sadly, no ET Commission for Denver.
We really need to get some progressive initiatives on the ballot instead of constantly playing defense.  

Also Fred Harris…It’s hard to imagine these days how men like Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, or Fred Harris could ever have come from the land of Oral Roberts.
The whole nation has collapsed morally, and Oklahoma, not California, is the new leading edge.

Which is why I expect Howard Dean…To announce his intention to challenge Obama by the end of 2011.Obama’s got his head either in the sand or up his ass. Hopefully, this is just heading off the press until he gets his sh*t together-and he’s only got a couple of months to do that. If he does, he’ll have held off a challenge. If he doesn’t? It’ll be President Dean in 2012.  

electionsWhat I wanted to point here where we live in NH the voter list is all in notebooks with 25 names per page along with address and party.  When you come into vote they check off your name. I voted 15 minutes before the end of voting.  I glanced over the page my name was on.
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