RM said about 15 minutes ago the race has already been called…
2.
Martin
I just want to say – if the initiative in Mississippi passes, anyone that stays in that state is a fucking idiot. Seriously, that’s Taliban-level shit.
just looking quickly at the results in w.pa, it seems the republicans are gaping in enthusiasm. shhhh
7.
suzanne
So the race that I’m most interested in tonight is over in Mesa, where State Senator and President of the State Senate Russell Pearce (a.k.a. the “brains” behind SB1070 and all-around fuckwad) is in a recall election against Jerry Lewis, who is the father of a friend of mine. Some good friends of mine have been deeply involved in the recall effort, so even though I don’t live in the district anymore, I’m pretty nervous. Pearce is a stain on us all, and he’s a big reason that Governor Brewer has been able to get away with her Reign of Terror.
Apparently we won’t know the final results until next week. ARGH.
I heard Rush making some noise about Issue 3 in Ohio the other day.
I really have no idea what it’s all about. It sounds like a vote to allow Ohio to ignore federal law. And I have no idea if a yes vote or a no vote is for the good guys.
Anyone?
12.
daryljfontaine
@DougJ: …for John McCain.
D
13.
Reality Check
Next: the GOP will pass each measure of the bill yet again, except this time one-by-one to make it impossible to repeal. Meanwhile, Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have a job to do…
BTW, we’ll still win the Personhood Amendment in Mississippi and take back the State Senate of Virginia. And Ohio will vote to repeal the individual mandate on Obamacare. Still gonna be a good night for the GOP.
14.
Martin
Ok, hearing Haley Barbour say ‘fallopian tubes’ was pretty awesome. tyoooooooobs
It’s the percentage that impresses me so far, about 63 percent right? That’s a whopping majority of Ohioans telling the GOP to stuff their anti-union plans where the sun don’t shine. In a prohibitively GOP-friendly state for God’s sake.
It sounds like a vote to allow Ohio to ignore federal law.
Yep. PPACA allows states to opt out of the federal system by providing a functionally equivalent state system. Issue 3 doesn’t do that. It just says ‘fuck you, we’re not going to follow that law’.
Crossroads and Crossroads GPS will make even bigger ad buy to get people to support the conservative point of view. One by one…at least a few elements won’t be repealed. Time for the Governor and the legislature to get back to work.
24.
soonergrunt
@jharp: A NO vote on issue three in Ohio is the vote we’d like to see. That would be Ohioans rejecting the idea that their state should attempt to ignore the new health insurance law.
Of course, those laws that are being passed to try to nullify federal laws are pure and utter bullshit, because short of secession, there is no way a state can avoid federal law. And secession as a valid course of action was pretty solidly rejected in 1865.
25.
Percysowner
On Issue 3 in Ohio the No vote is for the good guys. Issue 3 wanted the State Constitution to say that no one could be required to purchase health insurance. Issue 3 looks like it is going down to defeat, crossing my fingers.
Issue 3 is an initiative that would allow the state to ignore parts of “Obamacare.” It’s a tea party thing, which I believe was put on the ballot partly to lure the tea partiers to vote and push Issue 2 across the finish line. Didn’t work.
And Maine said yes to same-day registration, even though they started rumors that it was backed by…TEH EVIL GAY!
Gotta say, Checkers, I appreciate the honesty. “We will totally ignore the will of the people and bring in outside money to trample it into the ground.” Man, why hasn’t the GOP hired you as their PR guy?
And since you asked, you’re losing in Mississippi, something like 57-43.
29.
Steve
@Reality Check: I’m begging you…. convince yourselves you can magically overturn the will of the people with a few ad buys. Pretty please. I promise there will be no electoral backlash whatsoever.
30.
David Koch
I see ACORN is back stealing elections from Republicans all across the country.
31.
Reality Check
BTW, nice to see my neighbor across the river (Kentucky) at least choose a conservative, right-wing, blue dog Democrat. Nice to see at least some Blue Team folks on the “RIGHT” side…pun intended.
It’s early, we’ll win and win big down in ‘Ol Miss. And Virginia will go our way, too. And next up Gov. McDonnell over in Virginia can pass better voter ID laws and education reform, one he has full control of the VA Legislature.
34.
soonergrunt
@soonergrunt: FYWP–can’t edit when I still have 2.5 minutes.
Anyway, I would have edited it to read that I don’t know which way is for nullification. the YES vote is leading 66/34 as of 8:56PM CST.
@David Koch: And what’s really impressive is that reinstatement of same-day registration in Maine. ACORN must be a seriously efficient operation, because there’s only like 4 black people in that state.
31% of the votes in, Personhood is losing by 20 points.
[hooray!]
41.
scav
RC_Cola likes his lemonade extra tart (a boy can dream, no?) and he’s got a fair bit of it tonight.
42.
Samara Morgan
@Reality Check: Personhood has failed twice in Colorado by 70% to 30%, in 2008 and 2010.
in spite of focus on the family and michelle maulkin.
so FotF is trying to get it passed in other, more religious, more backward states.
good on mississippi if it fails.
@Martin: It’s the students. Because students flock to Orono from the four corners of the world to study. Like Boston, or Oxford. Except with more cows.
@Omnes Omnibus: ARGH, reading it wrong from AP, looking at the Cuy County BOE, and Issue 3 is running away. YOU GOT IT RIGHT, NO ON 2! WTF is wrong with people?!
AAAAARGHHHH
ETA: Leaving the computer to drink heavily and bang my head on the cement wall in the basement.
Issue 3 in Ohio: VICTORY, Personhood Amendment in Mississippi: VICTORY, Virginia Senate: VICTORY. Hey, “progressives”, I guess 1/4 isn’t SO bad for you, huh?
People want FREEDOM in their healthcare. That’s whats “wrong” according to you.
49.
Omnes Omnibus
@soonergrunt: Oh, Issue 3 is a dead letter- no doubt about that. I am just saying that it looks as though it will pass. Since it won’t have any real effect, it is perfect that RC is celebrating it.
Oh fer christs sake, I have just been having a discussion with my DH and he said “Sandusky had a whole lot of victims and one of them was JoPa” WTF, over the last three days we have been discussing this and he is still “JoPa is God” I give up.
53.
rikyrah
MAINE came through.
a blow for Voter Suppression 2012
54.
chopper
cheering for issue 3 is like cheering for some horseshit state bill that makes all abortion illegal and gets immediately shot down by the courts. moronic.
55.
Marc
Does the deluded republican think that he’s convincing anyone? Voter suppression in Main gone; union busting in Ohio gone; and you appear to be flat-out wrong in Miss too. And the Dems look to be holding on in VA too.
Not man enough to admit that your side did badly tonight?
wait some righting bullshit might pass in Mi’ssippi? That’s unpossible?
of course a wingtard would miss the real story: that Ohio’s solid blue for 2012.
58.
Steve
@chopper: Interestingly, here in New Jersey we had an amendment on the ballot to allow sports betting, even though it will remain illegal under federal law. In a sense it’s the same thing!
59.
soonergrunt
@Litlebritdifrnt2: Well, Sandusky’s victim count (as regards little boys) is over 20 and counting, according to MSNBC.
And JoPa could’ve been the hero, had he called 911.
Issue 3 is an initiative that would allow the state to ignore parts of “Obamacare.” It’s a tea party thing, which I believe was put on the ballot partly to lure the tea partiers to vote and push Issue 2 across the finish line. Didn’t work.
The best part is that Ohio pushed through a Draconian Voter ID law (I had to show my driver’s license at the polls) so the wingnuts can’t scream “voter fraud”
Remember, to most Republicans and Wingtards, this is all just a game. Their side wins, your side loses. Doesn’t matter what the issue is, it’s all just a game. This holds true for all aspects of their behavior at all levels.
63.
CarolDuhart
Issue 3 only wins because nobody has heard of it, and since the individual mandate doesn’t even come into play until anyway, there’s plenty of time for repeal. I think next year during a Presidential is just the right time,don’t you think? Most patients like the new options in Obamacare just tine, and the mandate hasn’t even taken effect yet. I only heard about it when I went to the polls today, which is another reason Issue 3 won.
Not surprisingly, your understanding of the issue is flawed.
67.
Will Reks
“The issue does not block the federal health care bill – should it ultimately prevail in the Supreme Court – from going into effect in Ohio. But it would prevent Ohio from enacting a Massachusetts-style health care system”
68.
soonergrunt
@Reality Check: Good Lord, but you are one dumb motherfucker.
@Reality Check: I’m confident there will be the drumbeat of how this is all good for the Republicans. What escapes is how this is actually any good at all. Issue 3 will rear its furry little head somewhere in a future “no could have predicted,” after the idiots in the Statehouse have been run out on a rail in 2012. “Personhood” doesn’t cut taxes or add jobs, and Mississippi will remain resolutely at the bottom of the foodchain. And putting a can’t-get-shit-done-worth-a-damn bottleneck in the Virginia legislature does … what, again?
Yes, victory! Pump your fist! Shout “woot! woot!” at the next person you see! And in the end it means…. what, exactly? A roadblock, a claim to ignorance, and a roadblock. Yes, well done, GOP. Cash the checks before the moneychangers change their minds. Woot, woot! Victory, motherfucker!
If every one of your predictions blows up in your face, will you go away and never come back?
76.
soonergrunt
@dmsilev: Oh, no. I’ve known it since about his second post.
I just like telling him that he’s a dumb motherfucker.
He’s the kind of guy we wouldn’t give grenades in country, because you just couldn’t be certain if he’d get himself and his crew killed because he was pants-shittingly stupid or slightly less stupid than that, but fucking squirrelly, you know?
77.
Villago Delenda Est
Reality Bites has to cheer on 3, because it’s very, very obvious that the big one…2…is going down, hard, and the fuckstick Kaisch is beyond butthurt on this one.
Republicans will take control of the Virginia Senate in a VICTORY. Issue 3 will go on to VICTORY, the Personhood Amendment in Mississippi will also go onto VICTORY.
85.
Spaghetti Lee
Anyone more informed about the VA races know which districts in particular I should pay attention to?
86.
soonergrunt
@dmsilev: well, my hobbies are building computers, playing computer games, and carpentry.
Telling dumb motherfuckers that they are dumb motherfuckers is more of a social service thing. Some people usher at Church. Others do charitable volunteering. It’s like that. I feel like I’m giving back to my community, see?
87.
Joel
@Reality Check: Issue 26 is 59% NO with almost half the precincts reporting.
For someone who professes to love the Constitution, you surely have some fucked-up notions about what it says and what it means. SUPREMACY CLAUSE, dickhead.
Dems are currently leading in 21 races and Gopers in 19.
With 44% of the precincts counted Initiative 26 in MS is holding steady at 59% no to 41% yes. And, with 66% reported, Issue 2 is a solid 62% no.
Looks like RC will have to console himself with a meaningless ballot issue in OH. That’s alright. That’s exactly the kind of initiative the Gopers in Congress have been pushing this year.
It’s still a VICTORY against Obamacare in a swing state. The VICTORY proves how much swing states hate the Obamacare mandate, something our nominee will exploit in 2012. Have fun with that, “progressives”.
94.
Steve
Did anyone even spend money opposing Issue 3 in Ohio? Was there a substantial campaign against it? It seems like the kind of non-binding blah blah that only one side would get worked up over, not to mention the misleading ballot language.
95.
suzanne
New Democratic mayors in Phoenix (Stanton) and Tucson (Rothschild).
I feel like going to Mississippi and fucking in the public square. Before ostentatiously gulping Plan B.
96.
suzanne
And “personhood” goes down like a five-dollar hooker for a ten-dollar tip.
Seeing as how it’s essentially impossible for any Republican presidential candidate to get to 270 electoral votes without Ohio, and you side got trounced in the only vote that has any meaning, shouldn’t you be shutting your fucking pie-hole right about now? Four more years of Obama, and he’ll get to make four Supreme Court nominations in his second term.
Suck on that, ya fookin’ idjit.
99.
me
Russell Pearce lost in Arizona. (or at least behind with 87% counted)
It’s something I heard about just days ago. I think it’s one of those things that gets snuck in and, like someone upthread said, is supposed to get the wingnuts excited enough to make the difference the races that really matter. Because 3 is a joke. It’s not remotely constitutional. If that’s all RC can cheer about, it’s been a bad, bad night for the GOP.
101.
rikyrah
AP JUST CALLED the PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT
58-42 AGAINST
102.
West of the Cascades
@Reality Check: That would be the nominee that was for the individual mandate before he was against it? Good luck with that.
Or are you speaking of some other nominee? Maybe one that gives speeches drunk? Or has sexually harassed four women (and counting)? Or committed serial infidelity? Or maybe the one who utters batshit crazy statements every time she opens her mouth?
Or is your nominee going to be a dark horse, coming in at the last minute to exploit your VICTORY tonight?
Maybe Sarah Palin?? Does that thought excite you?
103.
redbeardjim
@Steve: I didn’t even know it existed until a couple of weeks ago, and that was because I got called by a pollster. For a proposed constitutional amendment, it got very little press.
It’s a split decision. Ohio is *ALSO* voting against Obamacare. Which means its 50/50, just like 2000 and 2004…hmmm…
108.
Jenny
The landslide rejection of Mississippi’s personhood crap and the landslide rejection of Ohio’s union busting was in reality a rebuke of Obama’s middle east policies and big victory for the Teaparty.
Ladies and Gents, do you find it interesting that you can get up-to-date election results at talkingpointsmemo, and none at politico? Which is also supposed to be about POLITICS? Whereas the latter has more sex speculation than a high school locker room?
@rikyrah: A salute to all you Mississippi Rebs! That popping sound you hear is Southern Baptist preacher heads exploding. Rev Wildmon’s group must be sitting there in shock!
115.
Omnes Omnibus
@Reality Check: If it helps you sleep at night, please feel free to hold on to your little delusion.
Republicans will still take control of the Virginia Senate and Issue 3 will pass in a VICTORY.
119.
taiko
Sorry, @rc, the only real “Victory” regarding Obamacare was in the DC district court, where Pat Robertson’s Regent U geniuses lost yet again. You’re on an impressive losing streak tonight!
120.
Will Reks
@Reality Check: Hell. I probably would have voted the same way. I don’t particularly care to be forced to buy insurance from an insurance monopoly. That’s a huge bailout to a failure of an industry. But is it constitutional? I believe so and i reckon the Supreme Court will affirm that.
and, like the Cheshire Cat, RC faded away until nothing was left …
132.
Omnes Omnibus
@Reality Check: Not as silly as the night of Balloon Boy, but still one of the sillier things I have seen posted on this blog.
133.
Reality Check
Obamacare has gone down to defeat in a crucial swing state. With Republicans also poised to take control of the Sate Senate in another swing state (Virginia) what does this say about Obama’s chances?
134.
suzanne
Oh my God, I’m soooo happy. Russell Pearce is going DOOOOOOWN!
135.
scav
It’s only a flesh wound.
136.
Joel
With Virginia still undecided, almost all the issues of substance went the Democrats’ way today. Hopefully that bears good tidings for the Democrats next year. Who knows.
137.
dmsilev
Hmmm. It has stopped talking about Mississippi for some reason.
The Personhood Amendmet down in Mississippi will pass. Personhood Amendment in Mississippi: VICTORY. The Personhood Amendment in Mississippi will also go onto VICTORY. Respect my VICTORAH!!
Can we get a new troll? This one is broken.
140.
kay
Do it, Reality Check.
Pass Kasich’s union busting bill piece meal in the budget.
Try it again and you won’t win another election in Ohio.
Remember the Reagan Democrats? Union members who lean Right?
I was sitting with them tonight.
You know what they are now?
Democrats.
I’d like to personally thank the Koch Bros. for bringing us all together.
One big happy family.
141.
burnspbesq
And in New Jersey, despite Christie’s 54 percent approval rating and a huge influx of out-of-state Republican money, it looks like the Dems are going to retain control of both houses of the Legislature.
I’ve been wondering that, also, too. I’m a late arrival here so I missed those early years, he was already a front-pager by the time I showed up to the BJ party.
Excellent simulation of a sick-souled fuck, if true.
Did anyone even spend money opposing Issue 3 in Ohio? Was there a substantial campaign against it? It seems like the kind of non-binding blah blah that only one side would get worked up over, not to mention the misleading ballot language.
Very little was said about it. Heck, regulars here know Kay talks a lot of Ohio politics and I don’t recall her mentioning this, at least in a top level post. Compare that to the constant buzz about issue 2. If the troll above was at all serious about his claim that this was a “split decision”, he sure wasn’t pimping issue 3 before the election and didn’t drive any discussion of it here. It’s just grasping for straws.
144.
Reality Check
The GOP will WIN the VA Senate, just like the WON on Issue 3.
I must admit that I am gobsmacked that 26 went down in Mississippi and so decisively too! It was neck-and-neck just two days ago. And our new imbecile governor-elect made national headlines today by publicly stating that anyone who voted against it was in league with Satan!
On the downside, voter ID passed which opens the door for mischief next year, but I have to think it bodes well that nearly 60% of this extremely conservative state rejected the overreaching of the GOP and the Talibangelicals.
The GOP will WIN the VA Senate, just like they WON in Kentucky.
You mean, the Democrats will win and you’ll magically declare VICTORY anyway?
149.
FlipYrWhig
FWIW Bluevirginia.us, which is apparently the successor to once-noteworthy blog Raising Kaine, has been covering the VA elections in painstaking detail.
The VICTORY proves how much swing states hate the Obamacare mandate, something our nominee will exploit in 2012.
So, not expecting Romney to be the nominee, eh? Obama can just run ads with material provided by the Heritage Foundation and point out that he and Romney are on the same page. Healthcare will not be an issue if Romney is the nominee.
154.
me
@Reality Check: So, did you bank the personhood amendment victory yet? And which bank, Washington Mutual?
Holy crap, you’re right! Just because I spent 20+ years of paying attention to elections and projected results doesn’t make me an expert! I need 30+ years! Shame on me!
Wait until we choose a nominee. Being an official nominee is worth at least +5.
162.
Quincy
Issue 3 was a referendum on the individual mandate, not Obamacare. The wording was something like, “In Ohio no law shall compel a person to get health insurance.” If voters were asked to repeal the least popular provision in any bill without having to repeal any of the benefits, the result would be the same.
Yes, victory! Pump your fist! Shout “woot! woot!” at the next person you see! And in the end it means…. what, exactly?
The conservative movement gets one more death rattle than it deserves before its tossed into a shallow, unmarked grave in the desert where it belongs. They’re dead and they don’t even know it. Just shambling around as corpses, muttering “braaaaaaiins…. obaaaamaaacaaare….” and fueled by pure spite alone. Worse than nihilism.
@Citizen Alan: So the new Governor thinks a majority of his citizens are in league with Satan, including a significant portion of his own supporters. Wonder if he’ll ponder that at all?
Ohhhh, Joe Arpaio’s fat, fat tears are all the more delicious knowing that he’s shedding them over the loss of his wingman Pearce.
I am HAPPY!
168.
SuzieC
@Reality Check: Right, that worked so well for McCain/Palin.
169.
stinger
Iowan checking in – Dem Liz Mathis wins state Senate special election, and Iowa proudly remains a haven for marriage equality!
(edited bec. first draft was a little wacky)
“I must admit that I am gobsmacked that 26 went down in Mississippi and so decisively too! It was neck-and-neck just two days ago. And our new imbecile governor-elect made national headlines today by publicly stating that anyone who voted against it was in league with Satan!”
It’s a well-known phenomenon that “pro-life” ballot measures tend to do much worse at the actual ballot box than they do in pre-election polling. When I saw the last poll I knew the personhood amendment was doomed to defeat, because the “yes” side was well below 50%, and you could expect the undecideds to break heavily against it.
There’s a substantial bloc of voters who tell pollsters they’re pro-life, but vote pro-choice. This is especially true in conservative states where pro-life is the politically correct answer.
It’s similar to how many voters claim to be supportive of gay marriage but then vote to ban it at the ballot box, but this time working in favor of the liberal position.
175.
Reality Check
Annnnnnnd….now it seems….we CAN CALL…The Virginia Senate FOR THE REPUBLICANS! It’s over, folks!
or, um, almost? Not quite? Not so very much at all?
177.
suzanne
@Ms.B: It sure is! That district is very conservative, and the winner, Jerry Lewis, is also a Republican, but he’s much less ideological than Pearce. He’s also known for being much more friendly on immigration.
Lewis was also physically attacked a couple of months ago. The police were never able to find out if it was related to the election or not, but it was pretty shitty.
178.
CG
@jefft452: No, Obama will be an official nominee, too, so it’ll be 55% Obama to 48% Romney.
179.
scav
@stinger: Yeah IA! and I’m still somewhat gobsmacked and jawdropped by MS. OH felt better going in (congrats Kay et al) but MS?
180.
Steve
The Democratic side in Ohio is so well-organized for next year at this point, you wonder if the GOP should even bother trying to contest it.
181.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I find it amusing that a “conservative”, on a night when they purportedly are having so many “VICTORIES“, is spending his time trolling a liberal blog.
182.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Looks like VA is even up at this point
183.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Looks like VA is even up at this point
184.
taiko
Paging reality check – please pick up the blue phone. REALITY! calling.
Hurray for Mississippi! I was afraid the next battle would be to have the fetus be counted as a child for income tax purposes!
186.
EmanG
Just sitting here enjoying watching the local Fox affiliate ignore the fact that RUSSELL PEARCE WAS JUST OUSTED!!! I am finally proud that I live in Mesa (politically that is, the people here are getting it done)!
Actually I figured they’d make fetuses into corporations, at least til they were born.
192.
Cacti
Russell Pearce is gone! Russell Pearce is gone!! The man whose pudgy fingerprints were all over every bigoted, black hearted piece of legislation vomited out from the AZ State Capitol is gone.
Enjoy your retirement as a guest lecturer on the White Power circuit you peckerwood pig!
193.
suzanne
@Cacti: WORD!
Arpaio’s gotta find himself another Nazi lapdog.
One story that has been underreported here (although DKos has been on it) is the recall of State Rep. Paul Scott in Michigan. This has been widely viewed as a referendum on the “reforms” of new R governor Rick Snyder. Snyder isn’t nearly as odious as Scott Walker or John Kasich, in my opinion, but I’m not a fan of his agenda just the same. Most people have probably heard about Michigan’s “emergency manager” law.
The latest word is that Scott has apparently been recalled by a razor-thin margin.
This is a symbolic victory, but it is likely to lead to a great deal of partisan recrimination. Things are just starting to heat up in Michigan.
I don’t wanna jinx anything, but this is looking like a pretty great night for Arizona, and the rest of the country. I’m pretty damn happy. Not gonna lie. Going to bed.
I thought these crazy Phoenician Republicans were going to keep him on.
Pearce is from Mesa, actually, which is waaaaay more Republican than Phoenix. Phoenix just elected themselves a nice Democrat as their mayor tonight. :)
202.
Rome Again
It feels like a liberal landslide tonight… so, if the presidential election were held today… (I hope these people don’t forget what Republicans tried to do over the last year on next Nov. 6th).
203.
jefft452
@Steve:
“Most people have probably heard about Michigan’s “emergency manager” law”
When I was a kid they showed films in school about the evils of communism.
I remember one about what life would be like if Stalin conquered the US – an appointed commissar walks into the office of the Mayor of Anytown, USA and tells him he’s not the Mayor anymore
Something like that, no?
“one man, one vote …. one time” – the teabag motto
Well, yes, I realize that, but, he’s in the Phx metro area. I’m in Phx. I don’t live in ‘Mesa though. I said Phx because we’re in national (and international) company.
205.
ExurbanMom
Your humble ExurbanMom is now a school board member in my little town. And stupid Issue 2 went down in flames. But the idiots of my state decided that we are going to somehow opt out of Obamacare. By what, seceding from the union? Since when can we opt out of a federal law if we don’t like it? What a freakin’ joke.
@Rome Again: Ah, okay, sorry. No offense intended.
I just used to live in that god-forsaken shithole of a district for about fifteen years (went to school with both Pearce’s and Lewis’ kids for, like, EVAR), and feel badly about the rest of Phoenix being tarred with that brush.
@jefft452: Honestly, I think the emergency manager law has been overhyped a little bit, but still, you may have noticed something not-quite-rule-of-law about all these reforms that supposedly need to happen now now now, in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and elsewhere.
@Rome Again: And, keep in mind: in turnout terms, all non-presidential elections are more favorable for the GOP than presidential ones — even in a great Dem year like ’06, Bush’s approval rating among voters was 5+ points higher than it was among the general electorate.
Plus, all this good stuff (VA, by a hair, the only blemish on the evening) happened with the president’s approval rating still in 44-49% range. If you believe, as I do, that recent more respectable economic numbers will push those numbers up over 50 as we get into 2012, mix that with presidential year higher turnout, and you can see Dems doing very well next year. (Despite pundit consensus to the contrary)
I understand. I spend very little time (like NONE actually) in that area. I went to Apache Junction once, just once, and only because I HAD to. I stay close to Glendale/Peoria.
I go out to Wild Horse Pass in Chandler sometimes. I used to spend a bit of time in Tempe at the Big Bang (dueling pianos bar). I stay out of Mesa though. LOL
220.
amk
Congrats Kay on a whoopass victory over rethugs.
And that racist mofo of a pig in AZ pearce is gone is the icing on the cake.
Wow, just now heard about the Miss. personhood law failing. Shocked, honestly. Actually find it restores just slightly more faith in humanity than I lost due to it being proposed in the first place.
Here in Washington state, looks like the latest Tim Eyeman travesty will get shot down, and that the state’s hard liquor monopoly has been abolished. Good news on the first, the second.. Bah. I don’t drink, so I can’t directly complain, but I’d prefer the state get the revenue, a bunch more people are getting thrown out of work, and Costco basically buying themselves an election vote sticks in my craw.
225.
Steve
@MikeTheZ: And yet, if it had passed, there would be so much more humanity for you to have faith in!
226.
MikeJ
@Geoduck: My guess is it won’t take long for the lege to jack up the liquor tax to make up for the loss of profit. If you like to drink, stock up now, prices are going to skyrocket.
227.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I get a good laugh every time I see one of those “Ron Paul: the Military’s Choice for President” ads on the website.
228.
MikeJ
@MikeJ: And of course they’ll need the extra revenue to send state employees around to check for underage sales. Before today there was no incentive to sell to kids, and a state employee checked ID on every sale. Now the cops get to do it.
229.
dead existentialist
Tomorrow when the pollsters ask me “Is America on the right track?” I can honestly answer, “Yes!”
Thursday’s another matter . . . .
230.
Donald G
With regards to the Virginia Senate, last I checked, the count was at 20 Democratic seats to Nineteen Republican seats with one too close to call. A potential draw is hardly a resounding VICTORY for Republicans and Reality Check.
Ohio Issue 2 wins, overturning SB-5, the Union Busting Law, issuing a spanking to their teabagging governor: VICTORY!
Maine voters approve same-day voter registration, over the wishes of their teabagging governor: VICTORY!
Arizona state senate president Russell Pearce, author of the SB1070 draconian anti-immigrant law loses recall election: VICTORY!
Mississippi rejects theocratic, misogynistic “Personhood for embryoes and fetuses” ballot measure: VICTORY!
Michigan state republican representative Paul Scott recalled: VICTORY!
Balloon-Juice commentator ExurbanMom wins school board seat: VICTORY!
Ohio Issue 3 wins, apparently allowing Ohio to opt out of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act in apparent violation of the Supremacy Clause: IRRELEVANT! pending legal challenges, of course.
Virginia Republicans eke out, at most, possible tie in the state senate: This is a victory for Republicans???
So, Seven wins for people who don’t call themselves “Reality Check” out of a possible nine. And two “whatevahs” (but certainly not clear victories) for “Reality Check”.
Reality called: the check has bounced.
234.
ruemara
@ExurbanMom: Thank you. Thank you so much. I hardly see progressives take these local seats, so bloody hell thank you. Way to go and I apologize in advance for the length of your meetings. But I’m pretty sure mine will win hands down no matter what.
235.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Donald G: That’s a good summary. That clown will not read it, or will, and pretend he didn’t.
You left out Iowa. The G.O.P. was hoping to pick off a seat in the state Senate. Taking control there would have given the G.O.P. the ability to ram through the same crap Wisconsin and Ohio have been fighting off, plus it would have endangered Iowa’s policy on marriage equality.
Nice. I was going to go for that pun but you beat me to it… so has Reality Check bounced on out of here? Given his night of failure, I expect he hears his mommy calling.
241.
amk
Pic of the day.
Look at all the butthurt on the faces of the two of the vilest racist pigs – pearce and arpaio
Finally, at long last, I’m in my hotel in Seoul, and at last I can exhale. Ding dong, Issue 2 is fucking dead!
Thank FSM for early voting- I was able to vote on Friday before I left the country.
244.
Kathleen
@ruemara: Good news in Cincinnatii slso, too – 4 Rethuglicans lost their seats on City Council. That’s NEVER happened before. No one predicted 4 incumbents would lose, but they did. Although one of the replacements is a right wing tool.
That’s a lot of spankings issued to the GOP last night. Maybe they should automate. When I was in grade school, it was said that the principal had a paddling machine in her office. There might be a few still around.
People want FREEDOM in their healthcare. That’s whats “wrong” according to you.
Would you mind defining what you mean by FREEDOM? Somebody in Canada has the freedom of quitting their job and still have health care. In Ohio, if you quit your job, chances are you no longer have health care especially if you have a pre-existing condition. How does someone in Ohio have more freedom than say someone in Canada when it comes to health care?
A neighbor of mine has a pre-existing condition. He literally cannot quit his job because he is scared to death of losing his health coverage. How is this freedom?
A neighbor of mine has a pre-existing condition. He literally cannot quit his job because he is scared to death of losing his health coverage. How is this freedom?
That’s actually quite common. I know someone who had the same problem, and at the same time, the job was so stressful that it was killing him (and exasperating his pre-existing condition also).
Dave
RM said about 15 minutes ago the race has already been called…
Martin
I just want to say – if the initiative in Mississippi passes, anyone that stays in that state is a fucking idiot. Seriously, that’s Taliban-level shit.
BruceFromOhio
Happy to see that Issue 3 is following the downward spiral, but only 23% of precincts reporting, according to AP, so it ain’t over ’til it’s over.
Fuck you, Governor Fox News.
rikyrah
Come on Maine and Mississippi
soonergrunt
Has anybody asked Rush what he thinks of this? Cause that meltdown would be fucking epic.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
just looking quickly at the results in w.pa, it seems the republicans are gaping in enthusiasm. shhhh
suzanne
So the race that I’m most interested in tonight is over in Mesa, where State Senator and President of the State Senate Russell Pearce (a.k.a. the “brains” behind SB1070 and all-around fuckwad) is in a recall election against Jerry Lewis, who is the father of a friend of mine. Some good friends of mine have been deeply involved in the recall effort, so even though I don’t live in the district anymore, I’m pretty nervous. Pearce is a stain on us all, and he’s a big reason that Governor Brewer has been able to get away with her Reign of Terror.
Apparently we won’t know the final results until next week. ARGH.
Spaghetti Lee
@soonergrunt:
Every day is a meltdown with that sack of shit. Seriously, how can you tell if he’s angrier than usual?
SIA
@rikyrah: According to Rachel the no votes against the personhood amendment are at 57%, 43% yes. Just 16% reporting. That one needs to go down.
Mr Stagger Lee
Ohioans I salute you!
jharp
@BruceFromOhio:
I heard Rush making some noise about Issue 3 in Ohio the other day.
I really have no idea what it’s all about. It sounds like a vote to allow Ohio to ignore federal law. And I have no idea if a yes vote or a no vote is for the good guys.
Anyone?
daryljfontaine
@DougJ: …for John McCain.
D
Reality Check
Next: the GOP will pass each measure of the bill yet again, except this time one-by-one to make it impossible to repeal. Meanwhile, Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have a job to do…
BTW, we’ll still win the Personhood Amendment in Mississippi and take back the State Senate of Virginia. And Ohio will vote to repeal the individual mandate on Obamacare. Still gonna be a good night for the GOP.
Martin
Ok, hearing Haley Barbour say ‘fallopian tubes’ was pretty awesome. tyoooooooobs
Reminded me of ‘what’s a yoot?’
Reality Check
@jharp:
Obamacare individual mandate will be repealed by the State of Ohio.
Steve
@Martin: What do you have against cute little embryos? Or, as one of the sponsors actually called them, “our tiniest boys and girls.”
mikefromArlington
It’s good to see right wing lies not win all the time.
PaulW
It’s the percentage that impresses me so far, about 63 percent right? That’s a whopping majority of Ohioans telling the GOP to stuff their anti-union plans where the sun don’t shine. In a prohibitively GOP-friendly state for God’s sake.
Martin
@jharp:
Yep. PPACA allows states to opt out of the federal system by providing a functionally equivalent state system. Issue 3 doesn’t do that. It just says ‘fuck you, we’re not going to follow that law’.
So yeah, it being rightly ignored.
Steve
@Reality Check:
Please please try this. Please please please.
Reality Check
@PaulW:
You don’t know anything about elections then. Only a minority of precincts are reporting.
BTW, any news on the Personhood Amendment? How about the Virginia Senate?
scav
@Steve: Leeches should get a job and not be parasites?
Reality Check
@Steve:
Crossroads and Crossroads GPS will make even bigger ad buy to get people to support the conservative point of view. One by one…at least a few elements won’t be repealed. Time for the Governor and the legislature to get back to work.
soonergrunt
@jharp: A NO vote on issue three in Ohio is the vote we’d like to see. That would be Ohioans rejecting the idea that their state should attempt to ignore the new health insurance law.
Of course, those laws that are being passed to try to nullify federal laws are pure and utter bullshit, because short of secession, there is no way a state can avoid federal law. And secession as a valid course of action was pretty solidly rejected in 1865.
Percysowner
On Issue 3 in Ohio the No vote is for the good guys. Issue 3 wanted the State Constitution to say that no one could be required to purchase health insurance. Issue 3 looks like it is going down to defeat, crossing my fingers.
policomic
Way to go, Ohio!
Linda
Jharp:
Issue 3 is an initiative that would allow the state to ignore parts of “Obamacare.” It’s a tea party thing, which I believe was put on the ballot partly to lure the tea partiers to vote and push Issue 2 across the finish line. Didn’t work.
And Maine said yes to same-day registration, even though they started rumors that it was backed by…TEH EVIL GAY!
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/1741
Spaghetti Lee
@Reality Check:
Gotta say, Checkers, I appreciate the honesty. “We will totally ignore the will of the people and bring in outside money to trample it into the ground.” Man, why hasn’t the GOP hired you as their PR guy?
And since you asked, you’re losing in Mississippi, something like 57-43.
Steve
@Reality Check: I’m begging you…. convince yourselves you can magically overturn the will of the people with a few ad buys. Pretty please. I promise there will be no electoral backlash whatsoever.
David Koch
I see ACORN is back stealing elections from Republicans all across the country.
Reality Check
BTW, nice to see my neighbor across the river (Kentucky) at least choose a conservative, right-wing, blue dog Democrat. Nice to see at least some Blue Team folks on the “RIGHT” side…pun intended.
xian
squeal like a pig, RC
Reality Check
@Spaghetti Lee:
It’s early, we’ll win and win big down in ‘Ol Miss. And Virginia will go our way, too. And next up Gov. McDonnell over in Virginia can pass better voter ID laws and education reform, one he has full control of the VA Legislature.
soonergrunt
@soonergrunt: FYWP–can’t edit when I still have 2.5 minutes.
Anyway, I would have edited it to read that I don’t know which way is for nullification. the YES vote is leading 66/34 as of 8:56PM CST.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_state/OH_Page_1108.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS
Martin
@David Koch: And what’s really impressive is that reinstatement of same-day registration in Maine. ACORN must be a seriously efficient operation, because there’s only like 4 black people in that state.
Reality Check
@Martin:
I’m a Koch Brother from another mother!
Kathleen
Woot! Woot! We gave Issue 2 the Boot!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@Percysowner: Where are you getting your numbers on Issue 3? From what I see on the AP site, the bad guys are winning that one by a 2:1 margin.
Reality Check
Issue 3 will pass. The Personhood Amendmet down in Mississippi will pass. And the Virginia Senate will TURN RED.
Linda Featheringill
Mississippi:
31% of the votes in, Personhood is losing by 20 points.
[hooray!]
scav
RC_Cola likes his lemonade extra tart (a boy can dream, no?) and he’s got a fair bit of it tonight.
Samara Morgan
@Reality Check: Personhood has failed twice in Colorado by 70% to 30%, in 2008 and 2010.
in spite of focus on the family and michelle maulkin.
so FotF is trying to get it passed in other, more religious, more backward states.
good on mississippi if it fails.
chopper
@Steve:
we all know how the federal courts are so behind the idea that state law trumps federal when it comes to regulating interstate commerce.
soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: But as I pointed out upthread, nullification is unconstitutional.
Davis X. Machina
@Martin: It’s the students. Because students flock to Orono from the four corners of the world to study. Like Boston, or Oxford. Except with more cows.
BruceFromOhio
@Omnes Omnibus: ARGH, reading it wrong from AP, looking at the Cuy County BOE, and Issue 3 is running away. YOU GOT IT RIGHT, NO ON 2! WTF is wrong with people?!
AAAAARGHHHH
ETA: Leaving the computer to drink heavily and bang my head on the cement wall in the basement.
Reality Check
@Samara Morgan:
Issue 3 in Ohio: VICTORY, Personhood Amendment in Mississippi: VICTORY, Virginia Senate: VICTORY. Hey, “progressives”, I guess 1/4 isn’t SO bad for you, huh?
Reality Check
@BruceFromOhio:
People want FREEDOM in their healthcare. That’s whats “wrong” according to you.
Omnes Omnibus
@soonergrunt: Oh, Issue 3 is a dead letter- no doubt about that. I am just saying that it looks as though it will pass. Since it won’t have any real effect, it is perfect that RC is celebrating it.
Ben
There’s a lot of pie on this thread…
Reality Check
@BruceFromOhio:
VICTORY, motherfucker! Obamacare goes DOWN!
Litlebritdifrnt2
Oh fer christs sake, I have just been having a discussion with my DH and he said “Sandusky had a whole lot of victims and one of them was JoPa” WTF, over the last three days we have been discussing this and he is still “JoPa is God” I give up.
rikyrah
MAINE came through.
a blow for Voter Suppression 2012
chopper
cheering for issue 3 is like cheering for some horseshit state bill that makes all abortion illegal and gets immediately shot down by the courts. moronic.
Marc
Does the deluded republican think that he’s convincing anyone? Voter suppression in Main gone; union busting in Ohio gone; and you appear to be flat-out wrong in Miss too. And the Dems look to be holding on in VA too.
Not man enough to admit that your side did badly tonight?
Spaghetti Lee
@Reality Check:
Supremacy Clause, dipshit.
And you’re losing even worse in Mississippi now.
xian
wait some righting bullshit might pass in Mi’ssippi? That’s unpossible?
of course a wingtard would miss the real story: that Ohio’s solid blue for 2012.
Steve
@chopper: Interestingly, here in New Jersey we had an amendment on the ballot to allow sports betting, even though it will remain illegal under federal law. In a sense it’s the same thing!
soonergrunt
@Litlebritdifrnt2: Well, Sandusky’s victim count (as regards little boys) is over 20 and counting, according to MSNBC.
And JoPa could’ve been the hero, had he called 911.
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
@Linda:
The best part is that Ohio pushed through a Draconian Voter ID law (I had to show my driver’s license at the polls) so the wingnuts can’t scream “voter fraud”
Spaghetti Lee
@Marc:
Do you have links to those VA results? Can’t find em anywhere.
redshirt
Remember, to most Republicans and Wingtards, this is all just a game. Their side wins, your side loses. Doesn’t matter what the issue is, it’s all just a game. This holds true for all aspects of their behavior at all levels.
CarolDuhart
Issue 3 only wins because nobody has heard of it, and since the individual mandate doesn’t even come into play until anyway, there’s plenty of time for repeal. I think next year during a Presidential is just the right time,don’t you think? Most patients like the new options in Obamacare just tine, and the mandate hasn’t even taken effect yet. I only heard about it when I went to the polls today, which is another reason Issue 3 won.
Spaghetti Lee
so the wingnuts can’t scream “voter fraud”
O ye of little faith…
MGB
@Spaghetti Lee: Virginia Senate Races
Lojasmo
@Reality Check:
Not surprisingly, your understanding of the issue is flawed.
Will Reks
“The issue does not block the federal health care bill – should it ultimately prevail in the Supreme Court – from going into effect in Ohio. But it would prevent Ohio from enacting a Massachusetts-style health care system”
soonergrunt
@Reality Check: Good Lord, but you are one dumb motherfucker.
BruceFromOhio
@Reality Check: I’m confident there will be the drumbeat of how this is all good for the Republicans. What escapes is how this is actually any good at all. Issue 3 will rear its furry little head somewhere in a future “no could have predicted,” after the idiots in the Statehouse have been run out on a rail in 2012. “Personhood” doesn’t cut taxes or add jobs, and Mississippi will remain resolutely at the bottom of the foodchain. And putting a can’t-get-shit-done-worth-a-damn bottleneck in the Virginia legislature does … what, again?
Yes, victory! Pump your fist! Shout “woot! woot!” at the next person you see! And in the end it means…. what, exactly? A roadblock, a claim to ignorance, and a roadblock. Yes, well done, GOP. Cash the checks before the moneychangers change their minds. Woot, woot! Victory, motherfucker!
@@redshirt: Clearly.
dmsilev
@soonergrunt: I hope you’re not just now coming to this realization…
suzanne
Russell Pearce is down 53-45. :)
Hells to the yeah.
Xecky Gilchrist
Issue 3 in Ohio: VICTORY, Personhood Amendment in Mississippi: VICTORY, Virginia Senate: VICTORY.
Bookmark it, libs!
JD Rhoades
@soonergrunt:
@Reality Check: Good Lord, but you are one
dumb motherfuckerweak-ass troll.FTFY.
JD Rhoades
@Xecky Gilchrist:
Bookmark it, libs!
I was remembering the exact same thing.
Good times, good times.
burnspbesq
@Reality Check:
If every one of your predictions blows up in your face, will you go away and never come back?
soonergrunt
@dmsilev: Oh, no. I’ve known it since about his second post.
I just like telling him that he’s a dumb motherfucker.
He’s the kind of guy we wouldn’t give grenades in country, because you just couldn’t be certain if he’d get himself and his crew killed because he was pants-shittingly stupid or slightly less stupid than that, but fucking squirrelly, you know?
Villago Delenda Est
Reality Bites has to cheer on 3, because it’s very, very obvious that the big one…2…is going down, hard, and the fuckstick Kaisch is beyond butthurt on this one.
Reality Check
@burnspbesq:
All my predictions will be true. Bank on it.
dmsilev
@soonergrunt:
Everyone needs a hobby, I suppose…
Carry on, then.
Linnaeus
As a born and raised Michigander, I’ll have to accept that I will have to say something nice about Ohio. :)
Marc
@Spaghetti Lee:
Daily Kos is covering it in their open election threads. That site is annoying the rest of the time, but they do election coverage well.
Xecky Gilchrist
All my predictions will be true. Bank on it.
Indeed, someone will achieve victory in all these elections. We just don’t know who, but Reality Dreck didn’t say who so there.
BruceFromOhio
Oooh, troll-fest is nigh. Time to update my AARP membership, and maybe wax my ankles.
Reality Check
@Xecky Gilchrist:
Republicans will take control of the Virginia Senate in a VICTORY. Issue 3 will go on to VICTORY, the Personhood Amendment in Mississippi will also go onto VICTORY.
Spaghetti Lee
Anyone more informed about the VA races know which districts in particular I should pay attention to?
soonergrunt
@dmsilev: well, my hobbies are building computers, playing computer games, and carpentry.
Telling dumb motherfuckers that they are dumb motherfuckers is more of a social service thing. Some people usher at Church. Others do charitable volunteering. It’s like that. I feel like I’m giving back to my community, see?
Joel
@Reality Check: Issue 26 is 59% NO with almost half the precincts reporting.
Reality Check
@Spaghetti Lee:
All you need to know is that a Republican VICTORY is already finished.
burnspbesq
@Reality Check:
For someone who professes to love the Constitution, you surely have some fucked-up notions about what it says and what it means. SUPREMACY CLAUSE, dickhead.
West of the Cascades
@Spaghetti Lee:
Spaghetti Lee, FTW. Truly pathetic that the single right-wing “triumph” of the night is unconstitutional.
Reality Check
@Joel:
Blah blah blah, early votes don’t matter, if you think they do, perhaps you should watch this.
John - A Motley Moose
Here’s a link to the Virginia gov results page – https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2011/EB178FD6-875D-4B0D-A295-900A0482F523/Unofficial/7_s.shtml
Dems are currently leading in 21 races and Gopers in 19.
With 44% of the precincts counted Initiative 26 in MS is holding steady at 59% no to 41% yes. And, with 66% reported, Issue 2 is a solid 62% no.
Looks like RC will have to console himself with a meaningless ballot issue in OH. That’s alright. That’s exactly the kind of initiative the Gopers in Congress have been pushing this year.
Reality Check
@burnspbesq:
It’s still a VICTORY against Obamacare in a swing state. The VICTORY proves how much swing states hate the Obamacare mandate, something our nominee will exploit in 2012. Have fun with that, “progressives”.
Steve
Did anyone even spend money opposing Issue 3 in Ohio? Was there a substantial campaign against it? It seems like the kind of non-binding blah blah that only one side would get worked up over, not to mention the misleading ballot language.
suzanne
New Democratic mayors in Phoenix (Stanton) and Tucson (Rothschild).
I feel like going to Mississippi and fucking in the public square. Before ostentatiously gulping Plan B.
suzanne
And “personhood” goes down like a five-dollar hooker for a ten-dollar tip.
Ms.B
@Reality Check:
So sorry, Reality Check! AP just called that you’re wrong, oh so very wrong, about Mississippi.
burnspbesq
@Reality Check:
Seeing as how it’s essentially impossible for any Republican presidential candidate to get to 270 electoral votes without Ohio, and you side got trounced in the only vote that has any meaning, shouldn’t you be shutting your fucking pie-hole right about now? Four more years of Obama, and he’ll get to make four Supreme Court nominations in his second term.
Suck on that, ya fookin’ idjit.
me
Russell Pearce lost in Arizona. (or at least behind with 87% counted)
Spaghetti Lee
@Steve:
It’s something I heard about just days ago. I think it’s one of those things that gets snuck in and, like someone upthread said, is supposed to get the wingnuts excited enough to make the difference the races that really matter. Because 3 is a joke. It’s not remotely constitutional. If that’s all RC can cheer about, it’s been a bad, bad night for the GOP.
rikyrah
AP JUST CALLED the PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT
58-42 AGAINST
West of the Cascades
@Reality Check: That would be the nominee that was for the individual mandate before he was against it? Good luck with that.
Or are you speaking of some other nominee? Maybe one that gives speeches drunk? Or has sexually harassed four women (and counting)? Or committed serial infidelity? Or maybe the one who utters batshit crazy statements every time she opens her mouth?
Or is your nominee going to be a dark horse, coming in at the last minute to exploit your VICTORY tonight?
Maybe Sarah Palin?? Does that thought excite you?
redbeardjim
@Steve: I didn’t even know it existed until a couple of weeks ago, and that was because I got called by a pollster. For a proposed constitutional amendment, it got very little press.
xian
what a silly person
Joel
@Reality Check: That was some good trolling you had going on there, DougJ. This handle lasted what, six months?
The Dangerman
So, let’s see if I got this right.
Ohio 3 goes on the ballot in order to draw out the tea type troglodytes in the hope of saving 2.
Even with this draw, 2 goes down in flames.
3 may pass, but is worth less than a single square of toilet paper (not worth much, but when it’s the last one…) because it gets voided immediately.
Seems like a waste of time and money all around to lose 2:1 instead of 2.5:1.
Reality Check
@burnspbesq:
It’s a split decision. Ohio is *ALSO* voting against Obamacare. Which means its 50/50, just like 2000 and 2004…hmmm…
Jenny
The landslide rejection of Mississippi’s personhood crap and the landslide rejection of Ohio’s union busting was in reality a rebuke of Obama’s middle east policies and big victory for the Teaparty.
/WaPo’d
Ron
AP just called MS 26 for “no”.
Linda Featheringill
I guess we’ll all have to be brave and say something nice about Mississippi.
:-)
Way to go, guys!
Linda
Ladies and Gents, do you find it interesting that you can get up-to-date election results at talkingpointsmemo, and none at politico? Which is also supposed to be about POLITICS? Whereas the latter has more sex speculation than a high school locker room?
soonergrunt
@suzanne:
Very much like Reality Check. Or rather, his mom.
Steve
@Joel: Yeah, shark has been jumped, game is over.
Mr Stagger Lee
@rikyrah: A salute to all you Mississippi Rebs! That popping sound you hear is Southern Baptist preacher heads exploding. Rev Wildmon’s group must be sitting there in shock!
Omnes Omnibus
@Reality Check: If it helps you sleep at night, please feel free to hold on to your little delusion.
Spaghetti Lee
@Linda:
I get your point, but I’m afraid I can’t string “Politico” and “interesting” together in the same sentence without going unconscious.
hhex65
@rikyrah: VICTORY!
Reality Check
Republicans will still take control of the Virginia Senate and Issue 3 will pass in a VICTORY.
taiko
Sorry, @rc, the only real “Victory” regarding Obamacare was in the DC district court, where Pat Robertson’s Regent U geniuses lost yet again. You’re on an impressive losing streak tonight!
Will Reks
@Reality Check: Hell. I probably would have voted the same way. I don’t particularly care to be forced to buy insurance from an insurance monopoly. That’s a huge bailout to a failure of an industry. But is it constitutional? I believe so and i reckon the Supreme Court will affirm that.
Judas Escargot
@Reality Check:
Yay! 26 year olds kicked off their health insurance! People with pre-existing conditions, uninsured!
Victory!
(I’m no angel, but seriously, you are one sick-souled fuck).
SuzieC
@Steve: Even the RepublicanAG of Ohio, Mike DeWine, admitted that Issue 3 was merely “symbolic.”
BB
Reality Check, your version of VICTORY is pretty shitty, since it will only include a worthless gesture. But such is your lot in life, I suppose.
Omnes Omnibus
@Judas Escargot: Or, and this a real possibility, RC is just one of DougJ’s lesser efforts.
soonergrunt
@West of the Cascades:
RC’s getting starbursts. But it might just be from thinking about his mom.
Reality Check
Obamacare goes down in Ohio, and Republicans take control of the Virginia Senate in a swing state. Democrats are on the way out…
xian
rotary cluck’s list of victories seems to be shranking
Brian S
I think someone should add an all-caps bolded VICTORY! option to the pie filter in honor of this evening.
Reality Check
ISSUE 3 VICTORY!
Turgidson
@Reality Check:
lol
West of the Cascades
@Reality Check:
and, like the Cheshire Cat, RC faded away until nothing was left …
Omnes Omnibus
@Reality Check: Not as silly as the night of Balloon Boy, but still one of the sillier things I have seen posted on this blog.
Reality Check
Obamacare has gone down to defeat in a crucial swing state. With Republicans also poised to take control of the Sate Senate in another swing state (Virginia) what does this say about Obama’s chances?
suzanne
Oh my God, I’m soooo happy. Russell Pearce is going DOOOOOOWN!
scav
It’s only a flesh wound.
Joel
With Virginia still undecided, almost all the issues of substance went the Democrats’ way today. Hopefully that bears good tidings for the Democrats next year. Who knows.
dmsilev
Hmmm. It has stopped talking about Mississippi for some reason.
Perhaps its ‘s’ key is broken?
me
So far Dems are holding the VA Senate.
Chyron HR
@Reality Check:
Can we get a new troll? This one is broken.
kay
Do it, Reality Check.
Pass Kasich’s union busting bill piece meal in the budget.
Try it again and you won’t win another election in Ohio.
Remember the Reagan Democrats? Union members who lean Right?
I was sitting with them tonight.
You know what they are now?
Democrats.
I’d like to personally thank the Koch Bros. for bringing us all together.
One big happy family.
burnspbesq
And in New Jersey, despite Christie’s 54 percent approval rating and a huge influx of out-of-state Republican money, it looks like the Dems are going to retain control of both houses of the Legislature.
I got your reality check right here, pal.
Judas Escargot
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ve been wondering that, also, too. I’m a late arrival here so I missed those early years, he was already a front-pager by the time I showed up to the BJ party.
Excellent simulation of a sick-souled fuck, if true.
cintibud
@Steve:
Very little was said about it. Heck, regulars here know Kay talks a lot of Ohio politics and I don’t recall her mentioning this, at least in a top level post. Compare that to the constant buzz about issue 2. If the troll above was at all serious about his claim that this was a “split decision”, he sure wasn’t pimping issue 3 before the election and didn’t drive any discussion of it here. It’s just grasping for straws.
Reality Check
The GOP will WIN the VA Senate, just like the WON on Issue 3.
Citizen Alan
I must admit that I am gobsmacked that 26 went down in Mississippi and so decisively too! It was neck-and-neck just two days ago. And our new imbecile governor-elect made national headlines today by publicly stating that anyone who voted against it was in league with Satan!
On the downside, voter ID passed which opens the door for mischief next year, but I have to think it bodes well that nearly 60% of this extremely conservative state rejected the overreaching of the GOP and the Talibangelicals.
Ms.B
@Reality Check:
If you have a chance between trolling opportunities, be sure to take a gander at the Ohio PPP presidential poll results coming out tomorrow, ‘kay?
Reality Check
@Ms.B:
PPP? It’s a Democrat polling organization, why should I care what they think?
Chyron HR
@Reality Check:
You mean, the Democrats will win and you’ll magically declare VICTORY anyway?
FlipYrWhig
FWIW Bluevirginia.us, which is apparently the successor to once-noteworthy blog Raising Kaine, has been covering the VA elections in painstaking detail.
Elie
@kay:
Fantastic comment, kay. Sing it!
bago
Alternately, you could whip up a regex to replace Victory with Lose, and bring Reality Check closer to reality.
Baud
@kay: Hey, Kay. Congrats! What a big night!
Bostondreams
@Reality Check:
So, not expecting Romney to be the nominee, eh? Obama can just run ads with material provided by the Heritage Foundation and point out that he and Romney are on the same page. Healthcare will not be an issue if Romney is the nominee.
me
@Reality Check: So, did you bank the personhood amendment victory yet? And which bank, Washington Mutual?
Reality Check
@Chyron HR:
As I said, I’m glad to see my neighbors down across the river in Kentucky elected a Democrat who is on the “RIGHT” side!
Will Reks
@kay: I wish we had more of a platform to solidify those votes. To make a case for expanding union rights in the USA.
SuzieC
Thank you citizens of Mississippi. This result means that the personhood amendment people will have a much harder time in my state, Ohio.
Judas Escargot
@kay:
I don’t even live in your state, but thank you (by proxy) for all your activism and hard work to help make this happen.
PaulW
@Reality Check:
Holy crap, you’re right! Just because I spent 20+ years of paying attention to elections and projected results doesn’t make me an expert! I need 30+ years! Shame on me!
Ms.B
@Reality Check:
Sigh,
I suppose Quinnipiac is, too, to you.
11/5
* Ohio: Obama up 50 – 43 percent. He won 51 – 47 percent in 2008.
Reality Check
@Ms.B:
Wait until we choose a nominee. Being an official nominee is worth at least +5.
Quincy
Issue 3 was a referendum on the individual mandate, not Obamacare. The wording was something like, “In Ohio no law shall compel a person to get health insurance.” If voters were asked to repeal the least popular provision in any bill without having to repeal any of the benefits, the result would be the same.
Linda Featheringill
Maybe everyone should keep in mind that you should never ever bet the rent money on how Ohio is going to vote. I don’t care who you are.
Fickle, fickle, fickle.
Sly
@BruceFromOhio:
The conservative movement gets one more death rattle than it deserves before its tossed into a shallow, unmarked grave in the desert where it belongs. They’re dead and they don’t even know it. Just shambling around as corpses, muttering “braaaaaaiins…. obaaaamaaacaaare….” and fueled by pure spite alone. Worse than nihilism.
Brian S
@Citizen Alan: So the new Governor thinks a majority of his citizens are in league with Satan, including a significant portion of his own supporters. Wonder if he’ll ponder that at all?
jefft452
@Reality Check:
■Ohio: Obama up 50 – 43 percent
“Being an official nominee is worth at least +5.”
So ….. you’re predicting Obama 50% – Romney48%?
suzanne
Ohhhh, Joe Arpaio’s fat, fat tears are all the more delicious knowing that he’s shedding them over the loss of his wingman Pearce.
I am HAPPY!
SuzieC
@Reality Check: Right, that worked so well for McCain/Palin.
stinger
Iowan checking in – Dem Liz Mathis wins state Senate special election, and Iowa proudly remains a haven for marriage equality!
(edited bec. first draft was a little wacky)
!
Ms.B
@suzanne:
That was a sweet one tonight! Schadenfreude is too big a word for Joe A, but, oh, what a sweet long word for this.
tkogrumpy
Thank you Ohio.
G
OK, I searched, and didn’t see it.
In Ohio, they came for the trade unionists.
and lost the statewide vote.
Omnes Omnibus
@jefft452: I think RC meant +5 for Obama.
ds
“I must admit that I am gobsmacked that 26 went down in Mississippi and so decisively too! It was neck-and-neck just two days ago. And our new imbecile governor-elect made national headlines today by publicly stating that anyone who voted against it was in league with Satan!”
It’s a well-known phenomenon that “pro-life” ballot measures tend to do much worse at the actual ballot box than they do in pre-election polling. When I saw the last poll I knew the personhood amendment was doomed to defeat, because the “yes” side was well below 50%, and you could expect the undecideds to break heavily against it.
There’s a substantial bloc of voters who tell pollsters they’re pro-life, but vote pro-choice. This is especially true in conservative states where pro-life is the politically correct answer.
It’s similar to how many voters claim to be supportive of gay marriage but then vote to ban it at the ballot box, but this time working in favor of the liberal position.
Reality Check
Annnnnnnd….now it seems….we CAN CALL…The Virginia Senate FOR THE REPUBLICANS! It’s over, folks!
Ms.B
@jefft452:
VICTORY
or, um, almost? Not quite? Not so very much at all?
suzanne
@Ms.B: It sure is! That district is very conservative, and the winner, Jerry Lewis, is also a Republican, but he’s much less ideological than Pearce. He’s also known for being much more friendly on immigration.
Lewis was also physically attacked a couple of months ago. The police were never able to find out if it was related to the election or not, but it was pretty shitty.
CG
@jefft452: No, Obama will be an official nominee, too, so it’ll be 55% Obama to 48% Romney.
scav
@stinger: Yeah IA! and I’m still somewhat gobsmacked and jawdropped by MS. OH felt better going in (congrats Kay et al) but MS?
Steve
The Democratic side in Ohio is so well-organized for next year at this point, you wonder if the GOP should even bother trying to contest it.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I find it amusing that a “conservative”, on a night when they purportedly are having so many “VICTORIES“, is spending his time trolling a liberal blog.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Looks like VA is even up at this point
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Looks like VA is even up at this point
taiko
Paging reality check – please pick up the blue phone. REALITY! calling.
SBJules
@Reality Check:
Hurray for Mississippi! I was afraid the next battle would be to have the fetus be counted as a child for income tax purposes!
EmanG
Just sitting here enjoying watching the local Fox affiliate ignore the fact that RUSSELL PEARCE WAS JUST OUSTED!!! I am finally proud that I live in Mesa (politically that is, the people here are getting it done)!
James
@BruceFromOhio:
Um, …wax your ankles?
suzanne
@EmanG: Don’t be proud you live in Mesa. Move to Tempe, dude.
Lojasmo
@jefft452:
No. Obama 79- Bachmann 20, paul 1.
ETA: Bachmann wins sd
jefft452
@Ms.B:
Math is hard :)
The Other Chuck
@SBJules:
Actually I figured they’d make fetuses into corporations, at least til they were born.
Cacti
Russell Pearce is gone! Russell Pearce is gone!! The man whose pudgy fingerprints were all over every bigoted, black hearted piece of legislation vomited out from the AZ State Capitol is gone.
Enjoy your retirement as a guest lecturer on the White Power circuit you peckerwood pig!
suzanne
@Cacti: WORD!
Arpaio’s gotta find himself another Nazi lapdog.
Next up: BREWER.
Suffern ACE
@Cacti: That is tremendous news.
Micheline
Reality Check needs a reality check.
Steve
One story that has been underreported here (although DKos has been on it) is the recall of State Rep. Paul Scott in Michigan. This has been widely viewed as a referendum on the “reforms” of new R governor Rick Snyder. Snyder isn’t nearly as odious as Scott Walker or John Kasich, in my opinion, but I’m not a fan of his agenda just the same. Most people have probably heard about Michigan’s “emergency manager” law.
The latest word is that Scott has apparently been recalled by a razor-thin margin.
This is a symbolic victory, but it is likely to lead to a great deal of partisan recrimination. Things are just starting to heat up in Michigan.
MGB
Michigan Republican Rep was recalled. Now for a special election in his district. http://michiganradio.org/post/michigan-state-representative-paul-scott-has-been-recalled
@Steve: ya beat me to it!
Rome Again
@suzanne:
Pearce has been defeated! ;)
suzanne
I don’t wanna jinx anything, but this is looking like a pretty great night for Arizona, and the rest of the country. I’m pretty damn happy. Not gonna lie. Going to bed.
Rome Again
@Cacti:
Whodathunkit? I’m so happy! I thought these crazy Phoenician Republicans were going to keep him on. OMG!
suzanne
@Rome Again:
Pearce is from Mesa, actually, which is waaaaay more Republican than Phoenix. Phoenix just elected themselves a nice Democrat as their mayor tonight. :)
Rome Again
It feels like a liberal landslide tonight… so, if the presidential election were held today… (I hope these people don’t forget what Republicans tried to do over the last year on next Nov. 6th).
jefft452
@Steve:
“Most people have probably heard about Michigan’s “emergency manager” law”
When I was a kid they showed films in school about the evils of communism.
I remember one about what life would be like if Stalin conquered the US – an appointed commissar walks into the office of the Mayor of Anytown, USA and tells him he’s not the Mayor anymore
Something like that, no?
“one man, one vote …. one time” – the teabag motto
Rome Again
@suzanne:
Well, yes, I realize that, but, he’s in the Phx metro area. I’m in Phx. I don’t live in ‘Mesa though. I said Phx because we’re in national (and international) company.
ExurbanMom
Your humble ExurbanMom is now a school board member in my little town. And stupid Issue 2 went down in flames. But the idiots of my state decided that we are going to somehow opt out of Obamacare. By what, seceding from the union? Since when can we opt out of a federal law if we don’t like it? What a freakin’ joke.
Rome Again
@ExurbanMom:
Congrats! Give ’em hell. :)
suzanne
@Rome Again: Ah, okay, sorry. No offense intended.
I just used to live in that god-forsaken shithole of a district for about fifteen years (went to school with both Pearce’s and Lewis’ kids for, like, EVAR), and feel badly about the rest of Phoenix being tarred with that brush.
Joel
@ExurbanMom: Congratulations!
Steve
@jefft452: Honestly, I think the emergency manager law has been overhyped a little bit, but still, you may have noticed something not-quite-rule-of-law about all these reforms that supposedly need to happen now now now, in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and elsewhere.
suzanne
@ExurbanMom: NICE! WTG!
Rome Again
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
LMAO me too! Perplexing, isn’t it?
Xenos
@Rome Again: Congratulations, Indeed!
Tom Q
@Rome Again: And, keep in mind: in turnout terms, all non-presidential elections are more favorable for the GOP than presidential ones — even in a great Dem year like ’06, Bush’s approval rating among voters was 5+ points higher than it was among the general electorate.
Plus, all this good stuff (VA, by a hair, the only blemish on the evening) happened with the president’s approval rating still in 44-49% range. If you believe, as I do, that recent more respectable economic numbers will push those numbers up over 50 as we get into 2012, mix that with presidential year higher turnout, and you can see Dems doing very well next year. (Despite pundit consensus to the contrary)
Rome Again
@suzanne:
I understand. I spend very little time (like NONE actually) in that area. I went to Apache Junction once, just once, and only because I HAD to. I stay close to Glendale/Peoria.
Rome Again
@Tom Q:
I believe, I believe! :)
Rome Again
@Xenos:
I don’t deserve any congrats Xenos, but thanks for thinking of me. I’ll send it to ExurbanMom, okay? :)
suzanne
@Rome Again: Well, I’m in Tempe/Chandler, and I rarely cross I-17. Maybe we’ll have a PHX BJ meetup sometime.
Waterballon
Democrats are doing very well on Long Island tonight. A good rebound from last year.
Rome Again
@suzanne:
Cool. :)
I go out to Wild Horse Pass in Chandler sometimes. I used to spend a bit of time in Tempe at the Big Bang (dueling pianos bar). I stay out of Mesa though. LOL
amk
Congrats Kay on a whoopass victory over rethugs.
And that racist mofo of a pig in AZ pearce is gone is the icing on the cake.
Rome Again
@Tom Q:
Yes, I would like to thank Republicans for scaring the hell out of our electorate and getting them off their derriers. ;P
CarolDuhart2
@ExurbanMom: Congrats!
MikeTheZ
Wow, just now heard about the Miss. personhood law failing. Shocked, honestly. Actually find it restores just slightly more faith in humanity than I lost due to it being proposed in the first place.
Geoduck
Here in Washington state, looks like the latest Tim Eyeman travesty will get shot down, and that the state’s hard liquor monopoly has been abolished. Good news on the first, the second.. Bah. I don’t drink, so I can’t directly complain, but I’d prefer the state get the revenue, a bunch more people are getting thrown out of work, and Costco basically buying themselves an election vote sticks in my craw.
Steve
@MikeTheZ: And yet, if it had passed, there would be so much more humanity for you to have faith in!
MikeJ
@Geoduck: My guess is it won’t take long for the lege to jack up the liquor tax to make up for the loss of profit. If you like to drink, stock up now, prices are going to skyrocket.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I get a good laugh every time I see one of those “Ron Paul: the Military’s Choice for President” ads on the website.
MikeJ
@MikeJ: And of course they’ll need the extra revenue to send state employees around to check for underage sales. Before today there was no incentive to sell to kids, and a state employee checked ID on every sale. Now the cops get to do it.
dead existentialist
Tomorrow when the pollsters ask me “Is America on the right track?” I can honestly answer, “Yes!”
Thursday’s another matter . . . .
Donald G
With regards to the Virginia Senate, last I checked, the count was at 20 Democratic seats to Nineteen Republican seats with one too close to call. A potential draw is hardly a resounding VICTORY for Republicans and Reality Check.
Anne Laurie
@ExurbanMom: Congratulations!
Cain
Well done, America. We loves ya.
Donald G
Okay… let’s recap:
Ohio Issue 2 wins, overturning SB-5, the Union Busting Law, issuing a spanking to their teabagging governor: VICTORY!
Maine voters approve same-day voter registration, over the wishes of their teabagging governor: VICTORY!
Arizona state senate president Russell Pearce, author of the SB1070 draconian anti-immigrant law loses recall election: VICTORY!
Mississippi rejects theocratic, misogynistic “Personhood for embryoes and fetuses” ballot measure: VICTORY!
Michigan state republican representative Paul Scott recalled: VICTORY!
Balloon-Juice commentator ExurbanMom wins school board seat: VICTORY!
Ohio Issue 3 wins, apparently allowing Ohio to opt out of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act in apparent violation of the Supremacy Clause: IRRELEVANT! pending legal challenges, of course.
Virginia Republicans eke out, at most, possible tie in the state senate: This is a victory for Republicans???
So, Seven wins for people who don’t call themselves “Reality Check” out of a possible nine. And two “whatevahs” (but certainly not clear victories) for “Reality Check”.
Reality called: the check has bounced.
ruemara
@ExurbanMom: Thank you. Thank you so much. I hardly see progressives take these local seats, so bloody hell thank you. Way to go and I apologize in advance for the length of your meetings. But I’m pretty sure mine will win hands down no matter what.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Donald G: That’s a good summary. That clown will not read it, or will, and pretend he didn’t.
Yutsano
@The prophet Nostradumbass: “Apes don’t read philosophy.”
“OF COURSE THEY DO OTTO! THEY JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND IT!!”
amk
@Donald G: LOL. Nicely rounded up. Did reality check hang itslef today ?
amk
@ExurbanMom: Congrats. Now go, rock the board.
Splitting Image
@Donald G:
You left out Iowa. The G.O.P. was hoping to pick off a seat in the state Senate. Taking control there would have given the G.O.P. the ability to ram through the same crap Wisconsin and Ohio have been fighting off, plus it would have endangered Iowa’s policy on marriage equality.
VICTORY!
Jebediah
@Donald G:
Nice. I was going to go for that pun but you beat me to it… so has Reality Check bounced on out of here? Given his night of failure, I expect he hears his mommy calling.
amk
Pic of the day.
Look at all the butthurt on the faces of the two of the vilest racist pigs – pearce and arpaio
http://pubphotos.postbulletin.com/photos/thumbnails/2011/11/8/Pearce%20Recall_Hans.jpg
Their fucking mouths couldn’t get any thinnah.
amk
Dead bat joe walsh going nutz over banks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gmjdl4RdIBU
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
Finally, at long last, I’m in my hotel in Seoul, and at last I can exhale. Ding dong, Issue 2 is fucking dead!
Thank FSM for early voting- I was able to vote on Friday before I left the country.
Kathleen
@ruemara: Good news in Cincinnatii slso, too – 4 Rethuglicans lost their seats on City Council. That’s NEVER happened before. No one predicted 4 incumbents would lose, but they did. Although one of the replacements is a right wing tool.
bjacques
@Donald G:
That’s a lot of spankings issued to the GOP last night. Maybe they should automate. When I was in grade school, it was said that the principal had a paddling machine in her office. There might be a few still around.
amk
@Reality Check:
How was the crow ?
Snowball
@Reality Check:
Would you mind defining what you mean by FREEDOM? Somebody in Canada has the freedom of quitting their job and still have health care. In Ohio, if you quit your job, chances are you no longer have health care especially if you have a pre-existing condition. How does someone in Ohio have more freedom than say someone in Canada when it comes to health care?
A neighbor of mine has a pre-existing condition. He literally cannot quit his job because he is scared to death of losing his health coverage. How is this freedom?
Rome Again
@John – A Motley Moose:
Reality Check can fantasize about the Mississippi Lt. Governor, because there’s not much else to fantasize about. :P
Rome Again
@Snowball:
That’s actually quite common. I know someone who had the same problem, and at the same time, the job was so stressful that it was killing him (and exasperating his pre-existing condition also).
Snowball
@Rome Again:
At least these people have “freedom”, whatever that means…
Shade Tail
Hey, reality check. Come back and be a blithering dimwit some more, so I can point at your dorky face and start laughing hysterically.