Happy Wednesday!

[yendi]

So, anything exciting happen last night? ;-)

Yeah, I'm pleased with the national result, as well as with how things went around here (we soundly thumped the idiotic Prop 1, decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, and banned greyhound torture). Not as pleased about a few national ballots (the homophobic trio in FLA, AZ, and especially AR, with the possibility of a fourth in CA), and I'm amazed at Alaska's inability to kick Ted Stevens out. But overall, I'm breathing a lot easier today than I was yesterday (literally, as my cold's mostly gone).

Twitter definitely broke under the strain last night; I'm assuming that the issues revolved around them storing different users on different servers, and having problems syncing them up.

Got to bed around 12:45 or so, I think. Woke up at my normal time to give Elayna the rest of the news (she knew that Obama had won, but not that FLA had gone for him, or how the local votes went). She was happy. :-)

Both Obama and McCain gave classy, elegant speeches, incidentally.

Now, the real work begins.

Comments

Each arrow connected matters

[fortunavirilis.livejournal.com]

There were several Florida ammendments that went one was or the other that I'm upset about here.

Ammendment 1 failed- so Florida can still seize property from asian immigrants who are not yet citizens. Granted- they don't enforce the law. But voters failed to vote yes to repeal the law. The best guess people have is that people just didn't understand what they were voting on.
Ammendment 2 passed- that's the 'Protection of Marriage Act' that you mentioned. Screw that. I don't need my marriage protect. Hell- Bill Clinton even called to tell people to vote no. But it passed. Grrr!

And some fairly conservative fools picked up state and federal seats in my district...

At least Florida (and my county) voted for Obama!

Re: Each arrow connected matters

[yendi]

Yeah, I find it amazing that a party that gripes so much about governmental paternalism feels the need to have the same government "protect" their precious marriages.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts had to pass a law to end greyhound torture? How big is the pro-greyhound-torture faction up there?

[yendi]

Well, it operates under the aegis of greyhound "racing." But by 2010, it'll be gone.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

*pumps fist in the air*

About time they got rid of that crap. (I almost adopted a retired racing greyhound, but where I used to live it would have been totally unfair to the dog due to lack of room.)

[seabat.livejournal.com]

The McCain speech was very gracious, Obama's was brilliant and had very Independence Day moments. The BIG difference was in the crowd reactions. McCain's people showed their classlessness with boos at every mention of Obama's name. They showed what idiots they are, unfortunately I live in a state that voted for him and has more idiots than many other states.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

There is STILL A CHANCE that Stevens will not be re-elected. They are counting almost 50,000 more ballots and he is only leading by two percentage points! *is hopeful*

You know that if Stevens is elected, he will either be incarcerated or booted out of the Senate (or both) and Palin will be the next Senator. That is how the Alaskan political situation is likely to shake down.