About Last Night

by digby

Thoughts:

• Even a fair number of the pro pot people voted against same sex marriage in Maine. So much for the hippies. Looking back, the racists must wish they’d put civil rights on state ballots so that people could vote their bigotry on a secret ballot. They could have kept Jim Crow for decades longer. I guess gay people will have to learn to “market” their humanity a little bit better. Maybe they could consult with the Jack in the Box people. Those ads are hilarious.

• The gasbags all think it’s very possible that health care is dead. I guess that’s because the Democrats actually added two seats.

• Plutocrats aren’t very popular at the moment. Go figure.

• The cable gasbags are even more irritating than last year and I didn’t think that was possible.

Update: Erick Erickson at Red State explains the Hoffman loss:

“The race has now been called for Democrat Bill Owens.

This is a huge win for conservatives.

“Whaaaa. . . ?” you say. (…)

The GOP now must recognize it will either lose without conservatives
or will win with conservatives. In 2008, many conservatives sat home
instead of voting for John McCain. Now, in NY-23, conservatives
rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment
chose.

I have said all along that the goal of activists must be to defeat
Scozzafava. Doug Hoffman winning would just be gravy. A Hoffman win is
not in the cards, but we did exactly what we set out to do — crush the
establishment backed GOP candidate.”

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