elections

[gwynnega]

I'm not happy about yesterday's Republican gains. But I am delighted beyond words that Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina lost. Delighted to say goodbye to Ahnold and hello again to Jerry Brown. (Maybe we'll even be able to pass a budget now.)

So, not thrilled about the state of the country, but happy to live in California...

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[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Somebody - Atrios? - said that a world where Jerry Brown was back but pot got voted down was a weird one indeed... I was pleased that both Boxer & Brown ran serious credible races and took their opponents seriously enough to win. Losing either seat or either of them would have been a huge loss to the public discourse as well as a disastrous result. I was also pleased that the budgeting prop - no more of that idiotic 2/3s business - and prop 23, the pollution standards one, passed.

The rest of the country, though, holy shit, with a couple notable exceptions...

(eta: I seem to have developed a random letter generator!)

[gwynnega]

The level of Republican gloating is pretty nauseating right now, but I suspect the old-school Republicans and the Tea Partiers may not get along so well once they actually have to work together...