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Good off-year election for Dems, in spite of fairly low


Posted: Nov 6, 2013

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

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As far as the VA race, it's like two different states, - Northern VA (NOVA) and

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Southern VA (ROVA, meaning the rest of VA). NOVA has many federal employees that live there and tend to vote democrat.

I've heard that. Aso 2 states male-female. Women said - a big get lost to Governor Vaginal Probe,

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the first time since RECONSTRUCTION that a Virginia governor has been thrown out after one term. (Contrast that with Seattle folk, who reportedly refused to reelect their third one-term mayor in a row.) Of course, McDonnell did betray the electorate by promising one thing while campaigning and then do a 180 on important issues, work hard to disenfranchise Virginia voters, and so on and so on. Presumably he counted on the traditional inertia to protect him from the consequences.



As far as your comment about separation of church and - state, all that means is the

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state cannot set up a religion like King George had, Anglican. It doesn't mean that leaders cannot be religious or worship God.

Absolutely true that we all have freedom of religion. - This is a win for keeping it that way.nm

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Joe Scarborough just said Dean Young "makes Michele - Bachmann look like a NY liberal." This

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is why I put it as a win for both red and blue, just not deep red. This TP guy might have won in 2010, but in 2013 Alabama conservatives (!) said a big no.

I think it's a win for America, a statement of resounding disapproval of TP shenanigans - (recent gov shutdown)

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courtesy of Ted Cruz et al. Gov shutdown was a little preview of just how detrimental right-wing fringe ideals would be if they continue to seep into positions of power.

Republicans aren't having it. Good for them!

A rejection of another TP congressman is a big win for America.

Nice list! I was looking for a similar breakdown to post. - sm

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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

Whoops. A blue win! Sorry. I should have questioned that. - nm

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