2012 Elections: Corndogs for everyone!

[leswp1]

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All the networks live coverage of Cain and his mouthpiece? Double U TF How is this news compared to all the other people who are accused and why don't they stop the world and get off for the other accusations. WHen will they break in to show the Penn State thing? How is this considered news and not advertising?

Aggravated that for once I was home for the news and it was preempted for Playboy Herman Cain Style.

 

[walrus]

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Two ways you know your state/city/local politicians are clueless. 1) when they try to balance the budget by jacking fines for parking violations through the roof. 2) When they embrace casino gambling as a cost free solution to budget problems. Where exactly are these casinos going in Maine? I didn't know moose liked to gamble, or that they had any disposable income.

Technically it would be 3 casinos and 2 racinos. Not sure Lewiston gets one, I think question 3 goes down but the other 3 pass.

 

[unofan]

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ohioans kill the union-busting bill handily. Early returns in Mississippi are against the personhood amendment by 57-43, but that's likely a result of which counties have reported versus which ones havent. Expect that one to tighten up as the night goes on.

no other surprises to speak of...

now 60-40 against with 43% reporting. still expect it to tighten up, but maybe the old rebels arent as backwoods as we all thought...

 

[unofan]

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Wow.

With 56% reporting, the Clarion-Ledger has called it in Mississippi - the Personhood Amendment is shot down. That's amazing considering it was almost 20 points up less than 2 months ago.

 

[Old Pio]

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Wow.

With 56% reporting, the Clarion-Ledger has called it in Mississippi - the Personhood Amendment is shot down. That's amazing considering it was almost 20 points up less than 2 months ago.

The late Dennis Wolfberg used to refer to "the statewide IQ reduction program in Alabama." Most times you could have substituted Mississippi. Evidently not tonight.

 

[Priceless]

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Technically it would be 3 casinos and 2 racinos. Not sure Lewiston gets one, I think question 3 goes down but the other 3 pass.

Questions 2 and 3 go down in flames, garnering just 45% and 37% support, respectively. The voter registration law also gets rejected, 60-40. Republicans will try again, this time by requiring a photo ID. Mainers will probably reject that, too. Wonder how many times they'll try before they get the hint.

 

[Rover]

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Interesting -- I'd have thought it would pass by 80 points. I assume we'll see similar evangelical dog whistle ballot measures for 2012 in swing states to help the GOP GOTV. I wonder if "One Man, One Woman" has one more cynical life left in it?

Given that the amendment went down to a crushing defeat, methinks we'll be seeing a lot, lot less of these things come general election time. If it can't win in Mississippi, where can it win? What the knuck's don't realize is that people only want to hear lip service to social conservative issues. When it actually comes down to enacting laws that might outlaw birth control (something most except for the involuntarily celibate population of conservatives uses) voters rise up and say "F NO".

The funny thing is a guy like Romney who apparently came out in favor of this now has to carry that weight in the general election. Should be pretty amusing to see him in a debate trying to explain away that one.

Happy about the union measure in Ohio not because I have a dog in the fight of that issue, but because it shows Dems are actually taking action against bad laws instead of sitting around and whining about it. Good organization, campaign tactics and an ability to frame the issue to their advantage. Haven't seen that in awhile.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Wow.

With 56% reporting, the Clarion-Ledger has called it in Mississippi - the Personhood Amendment is shot down. That's amazing considering it was almost 20 points up less than 2 months ago.

So, they finally had their shot to pass something as nuts as this and they blew it? In Mississippi? And Mitt supported it? Even funnier yet was how Haley Barbour was being interviewed explaining everything that was wrong with the legislation and then saying he voted for it anyway. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelarious.

Well, we still have to deal with this crap apparently.

Keith Mason is co-founder of Personhood USA, which pushed the Mississippi measure. The Colorado-based group is trying to put initiatives on 2012 ballots in Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Nevada and California. Voters in Colorado rejected similar proposals in 2008 and 2010.

Speaking of the failure in Mississippi on Tuesday, Mason said, "it's not because the people are not pro-life. It's because Planned Parenthood put a lot of misconceptions and lies in front of folks and created a lot of confusion."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...wRbmqA?docId=880bf714c87c46a58a01b9a6eea33939

It's all Planned Parenthood's fault.

 

[unofan]

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Summary of last night's bigger votes, stolen from a Fark thread:

Kentucky: Steven Beshear wins re-election as governor with 56% of the vote.

Ohio: State Bill 5 (union bargaining) has been repealed with 61%, but a symbolic ban on health care reform is approved with 66%.

Maine: Law removing same-day voter registration has been repealed 60-40.

Mississippi: Phil Bryant wins election as Governor with 61% of the vote. Pregnancy personhood has been defeated by - are you farking kidding me? - 58% of the vote, but an amendment to require voter ID passes with 62% of the vote.

New Jersey: Democrats hold both houses, the Senate 24-16 and the House 44-32 (with four seats pending).

Virginia: Republicans extend their Delegates lead to 66-32 or so, while the Senate is up in the air with Democrats leading 20-19 but Republicans leading the 40th race by 86 votes out of ~45000. A split Senate effectively gives control to the GOP, since the Lt. Gov. would have the tiebreaking vote.

Arizona: State Senator Russell Pearce, who authored SB1070, is recalled in favor of Jerry Lewis 45-53.

Iowa: Liz Mathis wins a State Senate seat with 56% of the vote. A loss would've split the State senate, giving the GOP enough power to force through some social derp that was only being held up by the Senate Majority leader.

Michigan: State Representative Paul Scott is currently beating a recall attempt 11486-11459 with 31 of 35 precincts reporting. Yes, that's a 27 vote margin. This won't be settled soon.

 

[bronconick]

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Scott conceded last night saying he lost by 232 votes.

 

[Rover]

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Also like how that knucklehead in Arizona got recalled. Now before somebody says "yeah but he got replaced by another Republican" I don't think all Republicans are idiots, nor do I expect Dems to win every single elective office in the country. There's a difference between traditional conservatives and knuckledragger conservatives. The former is a rare breed now, but I'm thinking a guy like Richard Lugar or the before-he-ran-for-Prez John McCain would qualify. Huntsman's probably the only guy in the field like that now, and he's drawing 1% of the vote.

 

[Kepler]

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Paul's still in the field and he isn't a knuck. He flunks many of their litmus tests.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Paul's still in the field and he isn't a knuck. He flunks many of their litmus tests.

Romney's not a knuck either. He's a, "What answer gives me the best chance of fooling everyone so I can win".

 

[Kepler]

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Romney's not a knuck either. He's a, "What answer gives me the best chance of fooling everyone so I can win".

 

[Rover]

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Paul's still in the field and he isn't a knuck. He flunks many of their litmus tests.

You're right, he's a stark raving lunatic. Not sure which one is better/worse, but I'll let the GOP primary voters figure it out.

 

[Priceless]

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The website still won't update, but according to the paper version of the newspaper, the drunk guy finally lost. This was the third time he's stood for election since getting hit with the DUI's and won the other two. At last, someone has beaten him.

 

[Kepler]

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The website still won't update, but according to the paper version of the newspaper, the drunk guy finally lost. This was the third time he's stood for election since getting hit with the DUI's and won the other two. At last, someone has beaten him.

Which one?

 

[Priceless]

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My twitter feed just lit up like a Christmas Tree....did Bachmann really just quote from Team America? And did she do it by accident, or was she trying to be hip?

 

[5mn_Major]

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Sweet, the GOP field is against financing students. Newt's role model institution is college of the ozarks. We know we'll be in good hands...

 

[Priceless]

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Sweet, the GOP field is against financing students. Newt's role model institution is college of the ozarks. We know we'll be in good hands...

Education won't be that important in the 21st Century.