[ksen]

I wonder if the Democrats bottling up nominations is one of the things that hurt them?

I think their general tone defeated them. They are not a happy party to be around.

I also wonder how much the Wellstone "memorial" affected the races.

I can't believe most of our proposed amendments passed. How in the world can Jeb get over 56% of the vote and then have constitutional amendments like "Protecting pregnant pigs", "Statewide Kindergarten for 4-year olds", and "Smaller class sizes" pass? You know that the 4-year old kindergarten will eventually become mandatory, things like that always do.

I think I realize now why the pubbies seem to be such a schizo party every now and then. It's the voters fault. We vote in our "conservative" candidates and then when we have the chance we help pass the most liberal of proposals.

[Sam Cree]

"I also wonder how much the Wellstone "memorial" affected the races."

Good point. That whole Wellstone thing really shocked me, I couldn't believe it was happening in America, reminded me of a Hitler rally. Others must have felt the same.

"I can't believe most of our proposed amendments passed."

I usually vote against amendments just on principle, they usually end up adding to bureaucracy and augmenting the power of authority.

But I am firmly convinced that we would have used our "democracy" to vote all our rights away a long time ago, if it were not for our Constitution. Of course the Democrats do their best to ignore the Constitution and appoint judges who will "interpret" it differently on every occasion.

[Overtaxed]

Speaking of statewide kindergarten and smaller class sizes......

In Wake County (one county away from me) 5 of 7 County Comissioners will be Republican. Wake County has to have one of (if not the most) greedy school boards in the state. I expect (hope) we'll be seeing some upset school board people when the budget battles start. :D

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

I also wonder how much the Wellstone "memorial" affected the races

That travesty affected the results here in a big way, I think. Might have been the margin that pushed Coleman over the top. I'm ecstatic about the Minnesota results.

We also elected a Republican governor in a great repudiation of the Chief Buffoon Jesse and his whole third party mentality. His candidate, running from the "Independence" party only polled around 16%.

And we picked up one congressional seat for the Republicans, too. Bill Luther is out, John Kline is in.

Made pickups in our state legislature as well.

All in all a FABULOUS result! Let's party for a while!