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It’s shaping up as a bad night for the GOP, after a bad day for the GOP. One of a lengthening series.
I’m not sure, but for some reason I recall NeD making boastful predictions of the GOP winning NJ and Virginia governorships. Can anyone confirm?
November 8th, 2005 at 8:42 pmHi!~
November 8th, 2005 at 8:55 pmAh, I live in NJ and the last I heard was that, according to exit polls, Corzine was the decisive winner in Jersey. However, perhaps it’s our turn for a fixed election, but I doubt that. We’re as blue as balls.
November 8th, 2005 at 8:56 pmAP has declared Kaine the winner in Virginia….this was at 9:06 eastern time.
richb
November 8th, 2005 at 9:09 pmDemocrat now leads: neck and neck in VA Lt. Gov Race.
No winner yet.
November 8th, 2005 at 9:14 pmKaine and Corzine have both been projected as winners! Yay for Democracy! Power to the People!
November 8th, 2005 at 9:37 pm12 step program time for the queers in texas…
November 8th, 2005 at 10:49 pmI was on the stairmaster at the gym watching CNN and I saw VA Governor project go across the crawl and howled with delight–people looked at me like I was nuts.
Didn’t even give a damn!
New on EWM: “Operation Choke the Chickenâ€
DHS won’t be caught with its pants down by Avian Flu
November 8th, 2005 at 10:52 pmLook out W.them lovely chickens are comin home to roost
November 8th, 2005 at 11:00 pmRead it and weep, GOOPers.
It’s your future (demise)…
DCCC Chair Rahm Emanuel is the first nat’l Dem we’ve heard from tonight. His basic spin on VA GOV: a straight-forward Dem message of health care, education etc. beat a straight-forward GOP message of tax cuts, death penalty and immigration. “In a red state, a Democratic message beat a Republican message.” And while Emanuel didn’t say it, his implication was that Kaine’s no Warner, meaning Warner won in ‘01 by trying to deliver a Republican-lite message. But that wasn’t the Kaine message; he delivered a much more conventional Dem message.
Emanuel also claimed that both the NJ and VA victories are part of a pattern that started with the OH 02 special. The pattern: Democratic voters are simply more motivated than the GOP right now.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:02 pmKaine wins in VA suburban counties carried by Bush in ‘04.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:03 pmTo the Republican trolls, time to cry in your beers.
Maybe reading Scooter Libby’s novel will make you feel better. After all, bestialty is a very special part of Republican life.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:14 pm“Now I understand why Paris is called the City of Lights. But seriously folks, these car fires are bad for the environment and are only increasing global warming.”
— President Al Gore
http://www.AlGoreLabs.com
http://www.AlGoreLabs.com
My government in exile has never had an indictement against it, and never sent a single soldier to Iraq. — President Al Gore (http://www.AlGoreLabs.com )
November 8th, 2005 at 11:14 pmNice bigotted attitude there, ATV. I thought there were no “queers” in Texas?
Unfortunately for you, there’s reason to believe the referendum passed in Texas will actually nullify all marriage in the state. Way to go, wingnuts.
So overall, a great night for right wing extremists. Nullify marriage in TX (failing to do so in Maine, by the way), Creationism takes a hit in PA and you guys lose out on Governor pickups in two states. Sucks to be you.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:18 pm#14
Yeah, that amendment was supported by the KKK at a rally in austin.
Too bad it won, but turnout appears to have been extremely low.
November 8th, 2005 at 11:29 pmHey with friends like the KKK who needs enemies?
November 8th, 2005 at 11:40 pmWith more and more results coming in, the picture’s really becoming sobering for the GOP. They pulled out a few — the Lt Gov in Virginia, for example, and defeating the overly-long-and-complex series of RON amendments in Ohion — but overall, they sustained serious losses across the board.
This is going to cause some serious re-assessments.
November 9th, 2005 at 12:06 amAhNold- Even the Governator is powerless to prove that he is better than teachers, Union folks and nurses. Hopefully, Maria is silently breathing a sigh of relief. Otherwise, she’d been disowned by the Shriver Family.
AhNALD- Live isn’t a movie or a sequel. This is the real world. Try to fit in it and suck it up.
HASTA LA VISTA, BABY!
November 9th, 2005 at 3:20 amI just enjoy saying the word “queer”. At my particular precinct in Dallas only the old people showed up. This is why judges aren’t “Umpires”. Civil rights. If only 10% of a population is gay then they most likely can’t prevent discrimination against them even though it is not illegal to be gay. Hmmm…
November 9th, 2005 at 8:17 amWhen Roberts said his job was akin to being an umpire he was lying to you, and only Biden, briefly, called him on it. Americans are stupid. Especially the queers.
Bad night in Republicanland. Looks like the Dems have pretty well slapped the crap out of them except for the lonely republican in for mayor in NYC. Guess that last minute code red or yellow Bloomberg called on the subways a week or so ago managed to remind the citizens of 9/11 and pull his lousy poll numbers back up.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but out in Kalefornya the Governator looked like someone kicked him in the nuggets this morning on CNN after all his propositions went down the drain. I mean, I wonder if he knows what a lame duck is?
November 9th, 2005 at 8:25 amRemember,
Mayor Mike Bloomburg was a Democrat until he ran for Mayor. He is as liberal as Ted Kennedy most social issues and he has billions of dollars to play with.
So, when some winger blabs about Bloomburg, remember to say he is as liberal as Ted Kennedy and that Democrats are a party that will cross the line to vote for a successful moderate candidate.
And then repeat in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice: “I vant to apahlogize to the people of Kali-fawnia for wasting 250 million dollahs on a vanity vote. Considah it a divorce”.
Oh yeah, and the fundagelical schoolboard in Pennsylvania was sent packing and to the Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota who stabbed his party in the back and supported Bush, Mayfloer Moving has called, they want to know where to stick the boxes.
-GSD
November 9th, 2005 at 8:38 amThis is wonderful that the Dems win in NJ and Va and the California Governor loss in his 4 proposition. Next year 2006 the Dems can take over the House and Senate and impeach Old Bushie and Cheney. The people in America are waking up to the corrupt Republicans.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:50 amA pretty sound thumping for Repubs. I agree that this might be an indication of voter semtiments swinging back to the Dems.
The one that blows my mind is the union referendum in CA — they actually voted to continue to allow the public unions to use dues money to fund Dem campaigns from members who don’t support Dems. That just doesn’t seem right to me somehow.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:55 amThanks for info on Bloomburg, GSD. I was wondering why he got back in. As a rightwing repug myself, I couldn’t help but notice some other little races that don’t bode well for my horses. Like those eight religious zealots in PA who got their walking papers handed to them. Pat Robertson and Faux News must be as pissed as I am right now.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but up in St. Paul, Minnesota, incumbant mayor Democrat Randy Kelly lost his ass to another democratic challenger after Kelly supported Bush in last years election.
Even up in far right Republican Idaho, a local race between a beautiful, rightwing little cheesecake named Brandi Swendell, who tried to exploit the removal of the Ten Commandments from a Boise City park got her ass handed to her big time, in spite of having lots of out of state money and the state Republican party giving her heavy support.
I mean, I’m so distressed I’m already drinking beer this morning.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:06 amI guess NED does not have much to say that the Repubs lost in NJ, VA and Ca.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:26 amNED,
Nervous?
November 9th, 2005 at 9:27 amI voted for issues 2,3,4 & 5 (www.reformohionow.org) but we LOST all of ‘em… Man am I tired of losing…
The simple explanation : You need to spend big money the right way to win an amendment that LIMITS big money in politics… Catch-22…
Fundraising was good, but the Bob Tafts were able to confuse Ohioans enough. Repubs put out ads like “If you wish to end corruption in Columbus, Vote NO!”… can you believe the irony?
Also, Democrats could not counter fake calls to Democrat voters homes from Repub groups asking them to vote No.
Another loss for AFL-CIO… when will the unions here ever rise? Like they did yesterday in California?
November 9th, 2005 at 10:12 amHey NED,
If it bothers you that America is starting to take
back this country, you can…
1. Move to another country, preferably Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
2. Or move somewhere in the mountains, were, if your a NED, a redneck may say ‘Squeal Like A Pig, Boy.”
(See Deliverance)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
November 9th, 2005 at 10:55 amThe MSM has picked up on this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_el_ge/elections_rdp_44
“Democrats cleaned up big in off-year elections from New Jersey to California, sinking the candidate who embraced President Bush in the final days of the Virginia governor’s campaign…”
There are so many ways that people could and should have awoken to the facts surrounding the corrupt cronies currently occupying the MonkeyPalace. Maybe we have the start of a solid trend?
November 9th, 2005 at 10:57 amI might add.. despite losing the “Clean Up Ohio” battle (which could’ve ensured fair elections FOREVER, which could’ve meant Dem wins FOREVER), I’m still glad to see the good results in NJ, VA & CA.
Also the Minneapolis/St.Paul Mayoral election where the Bush-supported candidate TANKED !!
November 9th, 2005 at 11:11 amIn our state of WI there isn’t many factory jobs left. I think the Tower Automotive that was in Milwaukee moved someplace in Ohio. Tower did not want to deal with the union in Milwaukee.
November 9th, 2005 at 12:08 pmBush support = a scarlet letter
November 9th, 2005 at 12:13 pmWe’re celebrating in California today. Ahnuld is about to be terminated. America is waking up. The people are taking this country back and out of the hands of the criminal Republicans.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:32 pmVoters across the nation dealt a major defeat to the radical anti-government movement. In Colorado, California and Washington, the people rejected the starvation tax policies of the Norquistas and reaffirmed their shared commitment to investment in essential public services. Looking ahead to 2006, this augurs well for good government Democrats and represents a stern warning to President Bush and the Congressional GOP.
For the full story, see:
“Voting with Their Wallets.”
November 9th, 2005 at 2:45 pm