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Deep Red/Tea Party candidates, some wins for moderate conservatives.
Some of the results:
RED WINS
Chris Christy, GOP, was reelected by large margin -- carrying a slight but definite majority of Hispanic voters.
Alabama state senator red against red race, with fairly moderate establishment incumbent defeating Tea Party religious extremist. (IMO a win for both red and blue Americans so put it on both lists. :)
BLUE WINS
Virginia governor turns blue.
Virgnia lieutenant governor turns blue.
Detroit mayor stays blue, goes white (first time in a long time)
NY mayor, my mistake corrected to turns blue.
Alabama state senator red against red race, with fairly moderate establishment incumbent defeating Tea Party religious extremist who disagrees with separation of church and state. (IMO, win for most Americans, red and blue.)
STILL UNDECIDED: Virginia attorney general dead heat Red-Blue.
INITIATIVES/OTHER
Illinois approves same-sex marriage (win for all but those who disapprove).
New Jersians voted to increase minimum wage by a dollar, to $8.25, an hour (Christie had vetoed). (blue)
Coloradans voted to tax their newly legalized marijuana and give to schools. (blue)
Portland, Maine legalizes pot (winners--all those who won't become felons/associate with criminals, and their families)
Of 11 Colorado counties on protest vote for "secession" from that state, 5 said yes, 6 no. (red?)
New Yorkers voted to have casinos. (business, libertarians?)
Texans voted not to pump public money into renovating the Astrodome. (Probably will be razed.)
Washingtonians reject GFO labeling.
Seattle-Tacoma, Washington still counting to see if $15 minimum wage for airport workers was passed.
Fellow Traveler
;About NY mayor, though: Yay for de Blasio winning, but "stays blue of course"? It's a (very welcome) changing of the guard there after nearly 20 years of Republican and "Independent" rule by Giuliani and Bloomberg.
"Bloomberg, a lifelong member of the Democratic Party, decided to run for mayor as a member of the Republican Party ticket. ... and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line.
...Bloomberg's election marked the first time in New York City history that two different Republicans had been elected mayor consecutively. New York City has not been won by a Republican in a presidential election since Calvin Coolidge won in 1924."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
107 | Rudolph W. Giuliani | January 1 | 1994 | December 31 | 2001 | 8 years | Republican |
108 | Michael R. Bloomberg | January 1 | 2002 | 11 years,309 days | Republican 2002–07; Independent since 2007. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_New_York_City