Mid-term Elections

~ Laura

I fell asleep while watching the election results on the iPad in bed. I love me some election porn, but couldn’t make it past 11.

It was a downer of a night. I think this election was about the drag of the economy. The long, slow, non-existent recovery.

Yesterday also marked the last day that did not include Hillary Clinton in the news cycle.

Open thread.

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7 thoughts on “Mid-term Elections”

  1. Bright spots:
    Providence did not elect a felon as mayor.
    MA elected a by-all-accounts decent attorney general. (Friend knows her as a work colleague.)
    NH wasn’t fool enough to elect Massachusetts’ sloppy seconds, Scott Brown.

    My desperate hope: Martha Coakley gives up on the idea of running for anything ever again.

    Other than that, people are stupid.

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  2. Thanks for the warning about Clinton coverage.

    Ever since 2007, I’ve made it a practice to boycott presidential primary coverage until election year. I’ve been a bit lax during the last couple of elections, so that the coverage has snuck up on me until I get disgusted and remember why I started boycotting.

    Due to your reminder, I’m making it official — I’m tuning out and turning off coverage of the 2016 Presidential race until January 1, 2016, starting today.

    Who’s with me?

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    1. I’m with you. I just sort of wish I could block out the last 24 hours and then jump ahead to a Clinton presidency.

      The best part of today and future days (for a while) is the cessation of the ringing telephone. My husband came home Monday evening after running a bunch of errands and plopped on the sofa and complained. I said, “You’ve had it hard? I’ve spent all night answering the phone! It takes a lot of work to keep pressing “Talk” then “Off.”

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  3. A good point: a pretty bad governor was voted out in Pennsylvania. (I don’t have strong opinions about the new one, but he can’t be worse than the old one.)

    Two bad points not making any national news (one for good reason, at least) Idaho (my home state) voted a complete idiot to be the state secretary of education, and Kansas re-elected the completely vial Chris Kobach, a person more responsible than anyone else for trying to make the lives of immigrants hell, to be secretary of state. Kansas secretary of state is probably of itself no big deal, but it adds legitimacy to Kobach’s truly evil and wicked campaigns.

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    1. I’m thankful to the Missouri judge who ruled against the same-sex marriage ban there yesterday, just when I needed it. Now my sister and her partner of 25 years, who have two children, can marry in our home state. Well, of course there will be injunctions and appeals and all that, but it was nice to see something positive.

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  5. I was distressed that Torlakson beat Tuck, thrilled to see Harry Reid tossed onto the ash heap of history, and my favored County Board candidate won. So as far as surprises from the day, I did okay. The rest of it had been predicted pretty much and I had internalized it. Yes! the phone has stopped ringing.

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