Well, as many of us expected, Obama won tonight. Strangely, there was one small part of me that wanted Romney to win just because things would get much more interesting and crazy, though obviously, in a bad way. With Romney as president, I would have had a much easier time deciding what I think about his actions. I'd most likely just hate everything he does, and I'd love to watch his approval ratings plummet. But on a much more realistic note, it's better to have Obama in the white house. I still don't like him, but he's better than Romney. He's just the lesser of two evils to me, as Democratic candidates often are. I voted for Jill Stein, the candidate from the Green Party, and I got two of my roommates to vote for a third party too. They voted Libertarian instead of Green like me, but hey, Gary Johnson's a hell of a lot better than Obama or Romney.
Now, about some of the more important state propositions, I'm fairly happy with some of these outcomes, or projected outcomes, seeing as some are too close to call still. At this point, it's looking like California's Proposition 30, which basically taxes the rich more and uses that money for education, is going to pass, but I haven't seen any official projections on it yet. I voted yes on that one, and I'm really rooting for it. I think it's the most important one that California has this election. In other news, Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana, Massachusetts legalized medical marijuana, Maine and Maryland legalized same-sex marriage, Minnesota voted down a same-sex marriage ban (Let's all point and laugh at Ms. Bachmann, shall we?), Oklahoma banned affirmative action, Montana voted to restrict corporate contributions to political campaigns, and Florida voted to keep public funds going to abortion and away from religion, along with voting down an Obamacare rejection measure.
Those are the ones I'm happy about. Now let's move onto the not-so-great news.
Oregon decided not to legalize marijuana, Arkansas rejected medical marijuana (which isn't a surprise, but what was a surprise was how close the vote was: approximately 48.6% yes votes and 51.4% no votes), and it's looking like Massachusetts is going to vote down doctor-assisted suicide. That last one is very close, though more than 90% of the votes are in, and it's at about 49.3% voting for it and 50.7% voting against it. And finally, we have four massive failures in Montana next to that nice restriction of corporate funds to political campaigns. All four of these measures are terrible, and they all got passed. They voted to require parental notification for underage girls getting abortions, they voted to deny public services to undocumented immigrants, they rejected Obamacare (as did Wyoming, Missouri, and Alabama if I'm not mistaken), and they repealed medical marijuana. Unfortunate, innit?
Also, in some Congress related news, the Democrats retain control of the Senate, and the Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives, not that this matters a whole lot to me. They don't tend to get much done no matter who is in control. I mean, Obama could have gotten some more stuff done during his first two years when the Democrats controlled the entirety of the 111th U.S. Congress, but he was worried about getting reelected and didn't want to do too much too **** off the Republicans, so he pretty much just slipped Obamacare through. Anyway, as a small side note though, we actually have two Independents in the Senate now from Maine and Vermont, and Wisconsin has given the United States its first homosexual senator.
So, for those of you who would like to share, what do you make of all these results, and who or what did you vote for?
Now, about some of the more important state propositions, I'm fairly happy with some of these outcomes, or projected outcomes, seeing as some are too close to call still. At this point, it's looking like California's Proposition 30, which basically taxes the rich more and uses that money for education, is going to pass, but I haven't seen any official projections on it yet. I voted yes on that one, and I'm really rooting for it. I think it's the most important one that California has this election. In other news, Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana, Massachusetts legalized medical marijuana, Maine and Maryland legalized same-sex marriage, Minnesota voted down a same-sex marriage ban (Let's all point and laugh at Ms. Bachmann, shall we?), Oklahoma banned affirmative action, Montana voted to restrict corporate contributions to political campaigns, and Florida voted to keep public funds going to abortion and away from religion, along with voting down an Obamacare rejection measure.
Those are the ones I'm happy about. Now let's move onto the not-so-great news.
Oregon decided not to legalize marijuana, Arkansas rejected medical marijuana (which isn't a surprise, but what was a surprise was how close the vote was: approximately 48.6% yes votes and 51.4% no votes), and it's looking like Massachusetts is going to vote down doctor-assisted suicide. That last one is very close, though more than 90% of the votes are in, and it's at about 49.3% voting for it and 50.7% voting against it. And finally, we have four massive failures in Montana next to that nice restriction of corporate funds to political campaigns. All four of these measures are terrible, and they all got passed. They voted to require parental notification for underage girls getting abortions, they voted to deny public services to undocumented immigrants, they rejected Obamacare (as did Wyoming, Missouri, and Alabama if I'm not mistaken), and they repealed medical marijuana. Unfortunate, innit?
Also, in some Congress related news, the Democrats retain control of the Senate, and the Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives, not that this matters a whole lot to me. They don't tend to get much done no matter who is in control. I mean, Obama could have gotten some more stuff done during his first two years when the Democrats controlled the entirety of the 111th U.S. Congress, but he was worried about getting reelected and didn't want to do too much too **** off the Republicans, so he pretty much just slipped Obamacare through. Anyway, as a small side note though, we actually have two Independents in the Senate now from Maine and Vermont, and Wisconsin has given the United States its first homosexual senator.
So, for those of you who would like to share, what do you make of all these results, and who or what did you vote for?
