The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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you forgot MT

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/2006108rr_santorum_concedePJ_580.jpg

She is not the person in this photo I want to see crying.

Here's hoping this photo doesn't follow her throughout her life like a bad penny, and that instead she grows happy in a...I dunno...Christian lesbian electronic music collective or something. And that she always has that doll, and that doll's outfit always matches her outfit (or vice versa), that would so rock.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(grows up happy, I mean. You know what I mean.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Affirmative action ban OK'd

Jennifer Gratz, the U-M applicant in 1995 who was wait-listed and later spurred the case heard by the Supreme Court, served as the executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, sponsor of the proposal.

"I am excited and hopeful that Michigan will finally be a place of equal opportunity for all," Gratz said Tuesday. "The people of Michigan are the ones who have won today. They stood up to big business, big labor, to the entire establishment and said, 'We want to be treated equally.'"

Let's all sing "We Shall Overcome"

― The Denny McLain (Andy_K), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

does the american version of AA demonstrably lead to a disproportionate population of ethnic minority and women workers in the jobs that are AA'd (i.e. literally out of proportion to the population who apply for those jobs) or is it just bollox?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

has MT been officially called yet gabbneb?

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

answer: no

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

it's bollox, Alang

there are criticisms of AA but that's not one (mine: that most AA programs reward the economic and cultural elite of the groups they are trying to help)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

>> but if she plays it smart, could get some solid legislation thru

> Past Bush's veto?

In that scenario, the next two years amount to a setup for 2008 - if Bush consistently vetoes every progressive piece of legislation to come down the pipeline, the Dems just get an even bigger boost than they had going into this election, with a "Do-Nothing President" to wave around. Bush isn't going to let that happen, so expect the "Uniter, not a divider" stuff to come out of mothballs for some unlikely compromise legislation. See also: 1996 welfare bill, etc.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

or bush just keeps cramming the wrinkled up dollar bill of his dumbass legislation and bad judges into the now-pepsi vending machine of democracy over and over and over... until he gets that damn drink he wants.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Montana _just_ safe enough for a recount to either be impossible or fruitless.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

What the US needs is one of those plastic guards in the pickup slot to stop Republicans from just reaching up and grabbing all the Ike and Mikes on the bottom row.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

amen brother.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Montana _just_ safe enough for a recount to either be impossible or fruitless

with a difference of 1500 votes, um, yeah dude.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/116/292268372_8031f05c73.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL. (by the way, that Bush vs. Coke Machine picture: don't tell me he's in Crawford AGAIN... is he ever actually doing his job anymore these days?)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

THESE days???

The answer's no.

― richardk (Richard K), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Meantime, in the one local race that was up for grabs around here -- namely, a public transit/highway expansion measure that required a two-thirds countywide vote in favor -- Measure M's renewal passes! Just under the wire but it made it, thank goodness -- we needed the renewal badly as the population continues to increase, and I'll take a narrow victory over none.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

But but, that picture... what's up with Santorum's daughter's fingers? And his hair! Does he have the stars of the US flag as extensions?
Mom is kinda grinning at her democrat lover in the audience, methinks.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

and the other kids look like they've gotten into the liquor cabinet again... this picture is amazing.

poor kids.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

waitwaitwait

Bill Bennett on CNN: "You will see a draft movement for Rick Santorum to run for president of the United States."

Is this why Bill left his seat early? To start campaigning?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

whay does GOP actually mean ? Ghastly 'orrible Party

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish someone had the guts to say "Wanna bet?" to Bennett re Santorum for Prez.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I'm startnig to come around on this. I've been so stunted and scarred by previous "We woooonn--oh wait, we didn't!" scenarios that I was unwilling to feel celebratory. But I gotta admit right now I'm feeling pretty good.

― richardk (Richard K), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for change (yay me!), but I'm going to remain bullish. Hearing this dude spastically bloviate on the way into work this morning wasn't exactly inspiring.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Re Murtha - cue Patrick Murphy! I was subjected to a freeper style takedown after criticizing dude for having no apparent politics. As the Democratic caucus grows more and more conservative, these "victories" seem increasingly Pyrrhic.

[I want to say "We're talking about Congress" in Allen Iverson's voice.]

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

this is pretty exciting!! but, in colorado the gay marriage ban has passed AND giving domestic partnership rights to same sex couples DIDN'T pass. bah. The fact that the stem cell thing failed in MO is pretty much a bummer, too!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

(I mean grows up to live in...OH NEVER MIND.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

oh bill bennet looked so pitifull on cnn - dude has seen better days.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the maverick independent congressman who calls himself a "democratic socialist" into the U.S. Senate.

Yeah, and I call myself Tsar of All the Russias...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yr right, bernie sanders is totally a republican in disguise.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

GOP = GOpwned.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

So once again:

If Conrad Burns wins Montana, and he's indicted via Abramoff, does Burns appoint a replacement himself, or is there a special election?

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

so, Burns has won my county (Gallatin) by about 182 votes, from the looks of things.

also: lol @ "urban" Montana

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, can't believe Wisconsin passed the anti-gay marriage referendum AND the death penalty one. I hate us right now.
-- Jordan, November 7th, 2006.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

donut - don't know, in other states i've heard of the governor appointing a replacement and special elections, but never the resigner choosing.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to gbx.. well, here's to the Bozeman folks who helped keep the county purple.. now it's up to Cascade county i.e. Grand Falls.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

yeah, a socialist or a stealth Repub, that's Mainstream Dem logic in action. He's a hack.

Green senate candidate in NY got 1%. Really, "antiwar" people, nice statement in a meaningless election.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm actually surprised Gallatin ended up being so tight. I'm sure Bozeman voted overwhelmingly for Tester, while all the outlying communities went for Burns.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Tester's lead has widened slightly in the last hour, in the 1700s now.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

dr. morbius are you roger adultery?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

virginia recount would not come soon

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

What does anyone know about Meagher County, MT? All Montana senate results are in apart from that county, which hasn't posted any numbers at all. According to the 2000 census, there are only 1435 voters in the county, but they did vote around 3-1 in favour of Bush in '00 and '04. Could narrow the gap but not overturn Tester's lead.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

no no mandee stem cell passed here, you missed the correction! min wage increase also passed here, overwhelmingly! I was working for the dems yesterday and the higher-ups were bitching about the stem-cell campaign being poorly run.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike, Prez voting isn't quite perfect indication of how they'll vote Senate-wise. Meagher voted 55% Democratic last time - albeit for an incumbent.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Illinois Green party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney got 11% of the vote, qualifying the Green party for easier ballot access and participation in the primaries. So that's a pretty cool.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

That NYT article also mentions that there can't be an MT recount unless the margin is less than 0.25%, currently standing around 0.5%.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Automatic recount in MT kicks in with a 0.25% margin - Tester currently has a 0.44% advantage. In VA, it's 0.5% and Webb has the edge by 0.35%.

(xpost)

Yes, it will take weeks before we know the final composition of the Senate, but this limbo will be a little more pleasant than 2000 FL and 2004 OH, won't it?

(Good point, Edward O; I was trying to find a quick guide to the blueness of the area)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Meagher also had less than 1000 votes cast in total then.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and if you're wondering, Dems did 10% better on Senate than they did on Prez in Meagher in 2000. Here's the psephological porn you seek:

http://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/

Meagher is quite red, but on 2000 (certainly not on 2002!) figures, not quite red enough to take the margin under .25%.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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