2010 Midterm Elections Thread

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by agzg

Seriously, guys, who will think of Illinois?!?!? The governor's race is 46.5% Quinn and 46.2% Brady! WE HAVE NO GOVERNOR FOR 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The saddest thing about Illinois is that the Greens lost major-party status, which they've held since Whitney got double-freaking-digits in the last gubernatorial election.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

The saddest thing about Illinois is that the Greens lost major-party status, which they've held since Whitney got double-freaking-digits in the last gubernatorial election.

I want a multi-party system so bad :-/

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I want a multi-party system so bad :-/

One of the problems, I think, is that people hear "green" and think "environment", when really, at least in Illinois, "green" means "progressive on all types of issues".

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

One of the problems, I think, is that people hear "green" and think "environment", when really, at least in Illinois, "green" means "progressive on all types of issues".

To be honest, lots of people hear "Greens" and think "looney."

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

One of the problems, I think, is that people hear "green" and think "environment", when really, at least in Illinois, "green" means "progressive on all types of issues".

No, the problem is that adding a party requires a ridiculous number of loopholes. I voted Whitney last time around with getting Greens on the ballot as part of my reasoning. People didn't not vote for him because they thought loony or environment (although the typo in Chicago probably didn't help) but because he was neither D nor R.

[Drolefille]

oh dear god fix the markup. And Michigan.gov is ran by the government in office. I guarantee you Blagojevich's tenure talked a lot about the amazing things he did.

Didn't mention all the screw ups. Or the lying, or the selling of the senate seat, or the threatening of children's hospitals for campaign donations. Whether the information stays up there during the next administration or not has a lot to do with the local politics. But it's not an opinion site.

Funny how that works.

[DaemonSeid]

so, in Maryland, 2 counties shot down bills that allowed for ambulances to charge insurances for services. This may also make ambo companies lay off workers.

Also Anne Arundel County has voted for a bill that will allow for slots gambling...but there is still the concern about it being near a very busy shopping area.

[VandalSquirrel]

We lost our blue dog and he has been replaced with someone who wants to remove all illegal immigrants, give businesses tax breaks, and not tax individuals, and dismantle the Department of Education. Since our main business is agriculture, I'm not sure how that is going to keep going without the labor of undocumented workers; workers who spend their money here and aren't filing tax returns so they aren't getting money back so the state can use it. I guess his plan to provide jobs to Idaho is removing all the migrant workers and we can have those? There's also his support of nuclear power plants, as a way to have cheap energy we can sell to Oregon and California, but I guess he hasn't left the center of the universe (Boise metro area) because if he got on I-84 and headed west he'd see the massive amount of windmills in Oregon. I'd rather have some not so aesthetically pleasing windmills on an already fugly landscape than Chernobyl.

He also worked with the NRA to make gun ownership less stringent for the documented mentally ill, is a believer that marriage is between one man and one woman, and defending the rights of the unborn. Why are people who want less government so interested in what is going on in my bed, home, and my uterus? He is a total hater of Planned Parenthood (which doesn't provide abortion services here) but why not, as this means people can get sexual health needs privately or low cost and not on Obama Care. You think he'd be happy people are not being a drain on the economy but no, let's use our religious agenda to control others.

No other races in the state bothered me as much as this one. We got rid of Bill Sali the breast cancer hater, got still kooky but tolerable Minnick, and now we're back to Sali if not further away.

[aephi alum]

We still don't have a clear-cut winner in the Connecticut gubernatorial race. Malloy was declared the winner, but News12's counts put Foley in the lead, and Foley is going to challenge. Nor does my congressional district have a clear-cut winner. Again, Jim Himes has been declared the winner, but News12's counts put Debicella ahead. (The New York Times doesn't appear to have updated since last night.)

The votes are so close that I really do believe my one vote made a difference. It wouldn't have mattered for which ticket I voted in 2008 for President/VP - Connecticut was going to Obama. (I voted nonetheless.) But I'd be surprised if there isn't a recount in at least one of the races I mentioned. And they ran out of ballots in Bridgeport, which is heavily Democratic and in my CD. And here I thought Florida had locked down the Election Mishap Award back in 2000...

[knight_shadow]

I just found out that one of my fraternity brothers from our Rho Chapter (Texas State) is now the mayor of San Marcos

Daniel Guerrero won the San Marcos mayoral race by 41 votes Tuesday, and Kim Porterfield, Jude Prather and Shane Scott secured seats on the City Council.

Guerrero, 33, served on the council from 2004 to 2008 and is the executive director of the San Marcos Education Foundation. He captured 50.3 percent of the vote and will replace Susan Narvaiz, who opted not to run again after three mayoral terms.

Guerrero, the city's youngest mayor and the first Hispanic to be elected mayor there, said Tuesday night: "It's incredible; it's a testament to God, to the strength of my family. My family carried me through this.

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[starang21]

we're still red. not surprised.

in other news, the sky hasn't fallen and the rapture hasn't happened.

[knight_shadow]

Still waiting on that budget that shows $18,000 being "comfortable" for someone who's not in high school or college.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Still waiting on that budget that shows $18,000 being "comfortable" for someone who's not in high scool or college.

Why would high school or college matter?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Why would high school or college matter?

*sigh*

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

*sigh*

I'm with you. Being 'college poor' isn't really relatable to being 'poor' for a lot of reasons.

/not that some people aren't 'poor' in college, but the resources available for students are vastly different than the resources available for pretty much everyone else.