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[2011 election results] Huzzah! Sunday drinking and Collective Bargaining!

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    I though they were just Hipster Washington?

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • Brian KrakowBrian Krakow Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Huh, I didn't realize that the Michigan recall did not receive financial backing from the Dem party and was outspent by a huge margin. Impressive.

    Is it possible that fucking over teachers may not be as popular as initially believed?

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    Brian Krakow wrote:
    Huh, I didn't realize that the Michigan recall did not receive financial backing from the Dem party and was outspent by a huge margin. Impressive.

    Is it possible that fucking over teachers may not be as popular as initially believed?

    Yeah their biggest asset is that the average voter doesn't follow politics enough to realize that the Republicans are fucking teachers.

    It's wildly unpopular among non insane individuals

  • adytumadytum The Inevitable Rise And FallRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Virginia Republicans declare a 20-20 Democrat-Republican split in the State Senate a decisive mandate for conservative values.

    Surprise.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    adytum wrote:
    Virginia Republicans declare a 20-20 Democrat-Republican split in the State Senate a decisive mandate for conservative values.

    Surprise.

    Well, mandate or not, it's going to be pretty impossible to stop them doing whatever they please now that they control both houses and the governorship... so hooray for gerrymandering and voter apathy, I guess.

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • adytumadytum The Inevitable Rise And FallRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Hooray.

    adytum on
  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    In all fairness, the way we scheduled our state senate elections so that they cannot possibly ever coincide with a statewide election makes me think that voter apathy is precisely what we've been counting on all this time.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Oh, no doubt.

    Also with half the races being uncontested.

    The Shannon Taylor win gave me some hope, though.

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
    SammyF wrote:
    In all fairness, the way we scheduled our state senate elections so that they cannot possibly ever coincide with a statewide election makes me think that voter apathy is precisely what we've been counting on all this time.

    Apathy and confusion is the point of these off-season elections. Low turnout elections are EULAs of democracy.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    1125 failed! Hurray for sanity! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016729750_tolling10m.html

  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Phillishere wrote:
    SammyF wrote:
    In all fairness, the way we scheduled our state senate elections so that they cannot possibly ever coincide with a statewide election makes me think that voter apathy is precisely what we've been counting on all this time.

    Apathy and confusion is the point of these off-season elections. Low turnout elections are EULAs of democracy.

    I was looking up the turnout numbers for Colorado and I was actually kind of surprised. First off most turnout numbers you see are votes divided by people of voting age. On our Secretary of State's website I could only find votes divided by registered voters. That is why the numbers below look a bit higher than normal.

    Colorado Voter Turnout:
    2005: 49% (we had some major state wide issues like personhood so I think this inflated this off year turnout)
    2006: 62%
    2007: no statewide ballot initiatives
    2008: 91%
    2009: no statewide ballot initiatives
    2010: 73%
    2011: 39%

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    No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote:
    1125 failed! Hurray for sanity! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016729750_tolling10m.html

    Thank god. I was actually surprised it did, must have been too confusing for the normal low info Eyeman support.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited November 2011
    Ed Houck just conceded, so Virginia is now 100% Republican controlled.

    It's going to be nice to finally have all those pesky women and minorities be second-class citizens again.

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    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • chrisnlchrisnl Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote:
    Ed Houck just conceded, so Virginia is now 100% Republican controlled.

    It's going to be nice to finally have all those pesky women and minorities be second-class citizens again.

    Oh damnation, now I'm glad that I'm scheduled to graduate at the end of next summer.

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