Today was Election Day

[jpmassar]

Progressives across the country breathed sighs of relief and emitted various "Huzzahs" last night as results were finalized. See here for my pre-election writeupIn the "Huzzah" category Republican Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce went down to defeat in a recall election to Jerry Lewis, another Republican, by a 53% - 45% margin. The

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[tiurin]

I would like to thank you for introducing OMGTWFA to my list of acronyms-to-use.

[jpmassar]

I just made it up last night. Google produces all of three hits on it.

[adb_foldem]

And 2 of those hits are this journal.

[tom_bayes]

Pleasantly surprised that even Mississippi isn't wing-nutty enough to pass so-called "Personhood". I suspect that there's a bunch of women that tell pollsters/husbands/preachers that they supported the bill and voted against it once they were alone in the voting booth.

As far as Kentucky, I get the somewhat toolish Democratic governor for a second term as opposed to the total bigoted prick that was running for the Republic Party. The limited polling for our races ended up being pretty LOL bad.

re; Mississippi

[rmd]

Yeah - I think "PERSONHOOD FOR GAMETES" sounds great for some people on the public corner, but in the same way that a whole lot of Catholic and fundamentalist Christian women have abortions, the idea of possibly criminalizing miscarriages was enough to change their vote in private.

[clutch_c]

Hearing the results, Pearce said he plans to "spend some time with my family and my God" before deciding what to do next.

[tom_bayes]

God will probably tell him to become a lobbyist or a Fox News personality.