Well isn't this just *peachy*.

[saxikath]

The only way I could be more upset at the election results is if Question 1 (repealing the state income tax) had passed. Mitt Romney? What was Massachusetts thinking?? And what happened to all that support for the clean elections law last time around? And now we have a totally Republican-controlled national government. AAAARGH. I'm more tempted than I was in July to move to Vancouver.

Then I wake up and it's gray and cold and raining.

Then I get to work and the network is down, effectively removing my ability to get much work done. (It's back now, obviously, but I wasted two and a half hours.)

I want to go back to bed. Or flee the country. Or something.

Comments

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

You're upset? My state elected its first Republican Governor since the nineteenth century! My only consolation, and it's a small one, is I believe the Republican House, Senate and White House will manage to reap such a whirlwind in two years that the American public will up and chuck everybody out in 2004.

No offense intended to the more right-leaning members of your readership. Just my own opinion.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Her leadership has right-leaning members?

The Democratic governors of Georgia, it's been my impression, have always been on the more conservative side. I may be wrong. Myself, I'm more upset about Max Cleland losing his Senate seat.

And to answer the question "what happened to all that support for the clean elections law?", I think at least part of what happened to it was the phrasing "Do you want your taxpayer money to be spent on...?" Of course people don't want their taxpayer money being spent on things--heck, almost half of them don't want their taxpayer money to be tax-paid money in the first place.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was our consensus last night. Of course they don't want to /pay/ for it...

(I spent a good portion of last night at Town Hall, having the Chair of the Board of Selectmen read the election results to everyone hanging around, and speculating about wider trends as predicted by Dedham. I tell you, small town politics are hilariously wonderful. Anyway, Mitt won, 51% to 46% or so in Dedham; this proved fairly true throughout the region. In my only bright spot of the night, Dedham elected the Democrat to the State Legislature, but then, in a referendum question, directed him not to vote for Finneran as speaker. Way to let him work his way into the power structure, guys.)

Walter Mondale lost. Again. Which makes sense, he looked like he was already half dead.