{"id":1330,"date":"2008-11-05T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2008-11-05T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T19:02:06","slug":"the-good-and-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/05\/the-good-and-the-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good and The Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m overjoyed with many of the election results: Obama won by a landslide, and NH has sent Shaheen to the house and re-elected its Democratic House members and Governor Lynch, there are a lot of interesting results to report on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Washington (state) voted almost 60-40 to allow physician-assisted suicide for the terminally-ill.<\/li>\n    <li>By an even greater majority (63-37%), Michigan voted to allow medicinal marijuana. And apparently, Massachusetts also decriminalized the possession of under an ounce of marijuana. (Note that there&#8217;s an important distinction, though: marijuana is still illegal, but possession of under an ounce will get you a fine, not handcuffs.)<\/li>\n    <li>Nebraska voted to end affirmative action, almost 60-40. Colorado has a similar vote, which is <em>extremely<\/em> close right now.<\/li>\n    <li>In a close (53-47%) vote, Michican voted to allow stem-cell research.<\/li>\n    <li>In the highest disparity of the nationally-reported ballot initiatives, 70% of Massachusetts voters saw that Question 1, eliminating the state income tax, would have disastrous consequences and voted it down.<\/li>\n    <li>Homosexuals lost out big, with Florida, Arizona, and California voting to ban gay marriage in their state constitutions, and with Arkansas voting to ban homosexuals from adopting children. Curiously, 52% of California voters thought homosexuals had to be stopped, while only 48% thought minors having abortions had to be stopped; 56% of Arizona voters thought homosexuals had to be stopped, while only 41% thought that the hiring of illegal immigrants had to be stopped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and the big surprise of the night? It looks as if Ted Stevens, the disgraced Alaskan senator, was re-elected by a hair. Most analysts predict that, when he returns to the Senate, he will pretty much be kicked out immediately, and then a special election will occur, in which Sarah Palin will likely win.<\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota, Al Franken appears to have been defeated by 690 votes, out of 2.86 million votes, an 0.025% margin. Oregon is very close, too, but the votes are still being tallied. Thus Democrats didn&#8217;t get the 60 seats in the house Republicans were terrified of, so they&#8217;ll have to rely on having good ideas.<\/p>\n<p>And ABC <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/story?id=6189422&#038;page=1\">reports<\/a> that Kenya has declared Thursday a <em>national holiday<\/em> in their country to celebrate Obama&#8217;s victory. The article on international perspectives also managed to interview the most stereotypical Italian ever. Described as &#8220;Drinking their coffees and cappuccinos&#8221; when interviewd, one Italian commented, &#8220;This is change. Not like that Bush. &#8230; Oh mamma mia.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m overjoyed with many of the election results: Obama won by a landslide, and NH has sent Shaheen to the house and re-elected its Democratic House members and Governor Lynch, there are a lot of interesting results to report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/05\/the-good-and-the-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}