FINALLY OVER
- The elections are finally over in the U.S. and the American people are relieved. The big corporate money was overwhelming this year and the public was fed up with the TV ads weeks ago. Yesterday here in Bath a couple of my housemates worked at the polls collecting signatures on a petition calling on the city to pass a resolution demanding that the Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections be over turned. They reported that gathering the signatures was quite easy as voters were eager to make a statement against the big $$$$.
- One thing to watch out for is the calls this morning on national TV for Obama to "move quickly" which to me means to close deals with the Republicans to force major social spending cuts while the public revels in their state of euphoria - cut their throats while they are still cheering.
- One of the more interesting numbers is that Obama got nine million less votes this time than he did in 2008. Romney got 2.1 million less votes than John McCain did in 2008. So that means that about 12 million more citizens sat this election out.
- Two House races I closely followed were in Florida where Allan Grayson (one of the more progressive members in the Congress) won back his House seat in my old stomping grounds of Orlando with 62.5% of the vote. In conservative reactionary Orlando! This I think is one very good example of the growing power of the Hispanic vote as the people who have moved to that city to work in the service industry around Disney have changed the politics there. The other race was in south Florida where the right-wing tea party black man Allen West, who got elected to the House in 2010, was defeated by 1% of the vote. West, a retired military man who wanted war everywhere, had created a list of 100 "liberal" Dems in the House who he accused of being Communists. If it were only true.
- Thought I'd share some of my favorite comments on Facebook this morning. Here they are:
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