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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

To Sum Up

Republican Ohio Governor Rick Kasich's union-busting law was overwhelmingly repudiated, Maine restored the election-day voter registration Republicans had attempted to eliminate, Mississippi rejected their extreme anti-woman anti-choice anti-abortion anti-contraception "personhood" ballot initiative, Arizona voters recalled Senate President Russell Pearce, author of the ugly anti-immigration "Papers Please" law, Democrats made Joe Liebermann cry by sweeping Connecticut, Democrats maintained control of the Iowa Senate to the relief of woman across the state, Kentucky's Democratic Governor was re-elected, an effort to recall a Republican state representative in Michigan was successful. Of all the things I was worried about yesterday, the only thing that happened was that Virginia Republicans may have won control of their Senate. The day played out closer to the best case than I could ever have hoped. The catastrophe of the mid-terms and their aftermath has ended, and 2012 is very well begun.

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