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ravensflyinnowUrsprünglicher Verfasser
Nov 7, 2012Obviously, the biggie was 4 more years of Obama/Biden. Hopefully The President has learned something from this election and has found out more of what people want. Hopefully he will reach across the aisle and work with the Republicans.
Gay Marriage has 2 more states (Maine & Maryland)behind it, with another (Washington) still too close to call. Minnesota has rejected an ban on it! On a similar note...Tammy Baldwin, defeated, 4 time governor, Tommy Thompson for a US Senate Seat, becoming the 1st elected openly gay Senator.
Death penalty repeal lost in California.
GMO labeling lost in California...thats a real shame. Monsanto and chemical companies win on that one...while everyone else loses.
Assisted suicide in MA is too close to call, but supporters have conceded
Marijuana initiatives...2 States have approved it for recreational use...COMPLETELY LEGAL!! (Washington & Colorado), but failed in Oregon
An Abortion initiative failed in Florida It would have curbed abortion right rights.
This is just a small list of wins (and losses) depending on what side of the issue you were on...Please feel free to add to the list for your state..
Thanks for voting!
Gay Marriage has 2 more states (Maine & Maryland)behind it, with another (Washington) still too close to call. Minnesota has rejected an ban on it! On a similar note...Tammy Baldwin, defeated, 4 time governor, Tommy Thompson for a US Senate Seat, becoming the 1st elected openly gay Senator.
Death penalty repeal lost in California.
GMO labeling lost in California...thats a real shame. Monsanto and chemical companies win on that one...while everyone else loses.
Assisted suicide in MA is too close to call, but supporters have conceded
Marijuana initiatives...2 States have approved it for recreational use...COMPLETELY LEGAL!! (Washington & Colorado), but failed in Oregon
An Abortion initiative failed in Florida It would have curbed abortion right rights.
This is just a small list of wins (and losses) depending on what side of the issue you were on...Please feel free to add to the list for your state..
Thanks for voting!
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- RAravensflyinnowUrsprünglicher VerfasserNov 7, 2012Wasn't Mazie Lt Governor, under Ben Cayetano, a while back?ReagierenAntworten
- ST
Nov 7, 2012Yes, and then ran against Republican Linda Lingle for governor, and (deservedly) lost. She's been in the House since then. Hawaii voters, myself among them, were not about to risk Republican control of the Senate, so we have Senator Hirono, weak campaign aside.ReagierenAntworten - SO
Nov 7, 2012I think the whole super majority rule in the senate has to change. Republicans will continue to vote no one any initiative by the president. Boehner has already said so.
ReagierenAntworten - MIMitgliedNov 7, 2012If the Senate were to go with simple majority, it would force compromise - a word lost from our recent past.
Obama has been given a second chance to prove his policies are really working. We will see if his speech last night was sincere or just a bunch of rhetoric. For our sake, I hope it is the former.ReagierenAntworten - SONov 7, 2012
We are stuck in Canada. With the conservatives holding a majority in parliament, there is no bill that they can't shove through. And they are doing it in huge chunks with omnibus bills. And they are destroying the very fabric of the country. They spent 28 million to celebrate the British win in the war of 1812, meanwhile cutting the budget for aboriginals in the same amount.
ReagierenAntworten - STNov 7, 2012It would seem that the newly enacted restrictions on voter registration and voting - changed deadlines, document handling rules, ID requirements - have had the effect some hoped for and some feared, to discourage eligible voters from voting, and particularly, eligible voters who would have voted Democratic, among them students and the poor, who have the most difficulty meeting the new requirements.
The flood of post-citizens-united money into unregulated negative ads has doubtless also discouraged voters.
Low turnout is a victory for no one.ReagierenAntworten - RAravensflyinnowUrsprünglicher VerfasserNov 7, 2012Puerto Rico voted for statehood...51st State?ReagierenAntworten
- DE
Nov 7, 2012I read some interesting figures on some exit polls. Three groups represented 26% of the people polled. They were Blacks who voted 93% for Obama and 6% for Romney; Latinos who voted 71% for Obama and 27% for Romney; and Asians who voted 73% for Obama and 26% for Romney.
From this it would appear that racism is indeed alive, well and thriving in the United States.
This article did not report the breakdown for the other 74% of the people polled. It would be interesting to know this.ReagierenAntworten - STNov 7, 2012The white population of the United States has not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, the year the Civil Rights act was passed. Yes, racism is alive in the US. I would suggest it's our own humble demographic which is playing offense in the game, however. At the very least, we are in no position to throw accusations at others when our own pattern is so plain.ReagierenAntworten
- BI
Nov 7, 2012[quote]I read some interesting figures on some exit polls. Three groups represented 26% of the people polled. They were Blacks who voted 93% for Obama and 6% for Romney; Latinos who voted 71% for Obama and 27% for Romney; and Asians who voted 73% for Obama and 26% for Romney.
From this it would appear that racism is indeed alive, well and thriving in the United States.
This article did not report the breakdown for the other 74% of the people polled. It would be interesting to know this.[/quote]So an Asian voting for a black guy over a right guy is racist?ReagierenAntworten - RAravensflyinnowUrsprünglicher VerfasserNov 7, 2012[quote]I read some interesting figures on some exit polls. Three groups represented 26% of the people polled. They were Blacks who voted 93% for Obama and 6% for Romney; Latinos who voted 71% for Obama and 27% for Romney; and Asians who voted 73% for Obama and 26% for Romney.
From this it would appear that racism is indeed alive, well and thriving in the United States.[/quote]OR...they just thought the other guy was a doucheReagierenAntworten - STNov 7, 2012So I just searched TN for Puerto Rico - it's conveniently listed as a separate country in the search engine. Hi, guys. What do you think about becoming a state, now that the statehood alternative has won a popular vote? The US has for many decades been telling Puerto Rico it can determine its own destiny - join, go independent, or stay "associated." Do you think Congress will honor that, by admitting Puerto Rico as a state? Will the Puerto Rican government actually apply?ReagierenAntworten
- SONov 9, 2012
You quite possibly could be "some moron" yourself. Don't like women much?
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