The measure I’ve been most concerned about, California’s Prop 8, is a few hours from meaningful results. But there are other measures of interest around the country. Here’s where they are at the moment.
Arizona is going to ban Gay marriage and is going to keep their draconian restrictions on employing immigrants in place.
Arkansas is looking to ban Gay people adopting children.
Colorado looks as though it’s going to “end affirmative action”, but seems like it’s not going to consider a fetus as a human from the moment of conception.
Florida is probably going to ban Gay marriage.
Massachusetts is looking like they’re going to keep their state income tax.
Michigan is probably going to allow both stem cell research and medical pot.
Nebraska is going to “end affirmative action”
South Dakota is probably going to defeat a draconian anti-abortion measure (again).
We’ll have to wait a few hours to get results from the west coast. Oregon’s measures, of course, are of intense interest to me. So are California’s. More to come.
Will what looks like a definite Obama victory based on East Coast results depress liberal turnout, hurting things like California’s no on 8 campaign? Or will it depress conservative turnout?
Also, no predictions yet in the Minnesota Senate race. If Franken wins, I’ll go jump for joy.
Several networks are calling Pennsylvania for Barack Obama at this point. That means that the electoral math for John McCain is way uphill; with just about any scenario in which most of the swing states go to McCain, he’s still under 270 without the Keystone state.
The short answer is my mother-in-law’s basement, which is an excellent place to eat pizza, drink beer, and watch politics. I’ll have the TV on and will be flipping between the networks. I’ll also be surfing the net, and watching as various electoral maps change around. I thought it might be convenient for some of you all out there in blog land if I dumped a list of links to the various interactive electoral maps and other resources that I’ll be checking out throughout the night. Where I’m able to embed the graphics, I have.
Welcome to election day. It’s been two years coming, and most of us couldn’t be happier. I’ll be updating throughout the day as I find interesting tidbits. For the moment, a question: there are a number of traditionally Republican states that have been noted this year as ‘tossup’ states. Among these; Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Georgia, Montana, and even Arizona depending on whose map you look at. In most of these states, though not all, the polls show a slight lead for McNasty. My question is, when it comes down to it, are American voters finally going to see the light and vote with their own best interests in mind, or are they going to continue to be moved by ‘cultural’ politics. This is a real test, and what we’ll know tomorrow morning is whether or not Obama was fair in saying that these voters ‘cling to guns and religion.’ Those soft, cultural issues are all that McNasty has going for him in this election.
It's true. I do. I post what I'm thinking, which is interesting enough I guess, but it's a monologue. I know my ideas are not always conventional, and I know that in flesh to flesh conversations people often disagree with what I have to say. So I'll bet that bit to bit conversations spark disagreement as well. Let's have a discussion. Dialogue is so much more fun.
