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US Midterm Election Results Live......Blow For Blow.

I am very sad and upset that Claire McCaskill lost. Josh Hawley is a fascist theocratic tool of the 1-percent. Watch out for him.

However all is not bad in Missouri. We did pass:
1. Medical marijuana.
2. Increase to the minimum wage.
3. This one is a big deal!: A huge ethics reform amendment to the state constitution that does the following:
. Require that legislative records be open to the public.
. Require politicians to wait two years before becoming lobbyists.
. Eliminate almost all lobbyist gifts in the General Assembly.
. Lower campaign contribution limits for state legislative candidates.
. Ensure that neither political party is given an unfair advantage when new maps are drawn after the next census.

The last item especially mandates very strong anti-gerrymandering rules that require fair and competitive districts and specific regulations for drawing the districts. I'm very pleased this one passed. It passed by 62%. Since it's a constitutional amendment the legislature can't screw with it either.

As sad as I am to lose my wonderful senator Claire McCaskill, all is not lost here
Missouri.
 
I think that voters rising up in a number of jurisdictions against the politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians is hopefully going to bring some balance back to many states, since it will no longer be possible to rely on the US Supreme Court to strike down gerrymandering with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on board.
 
cityboy-stl said:
...As sad as I am to lose my wonderful senator Claire McCaskill, all is not lost here Missouri.
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Unfortunately, she ran during times when experience and knowledge don't matter- if anything, experience is viewed as a disadvantage. In better times, her experience and record would have mattered more than her party affiliation.
 
And Zach Wahls won. Yay.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11...jzuc_YHoMbvzb6xJVWh5e0w#.W-L8AIIyGuI.facebook
 
KaraBulut said:
Unfortunately, she ran during times when experience and knowledge don't matter- if anything, experience is viewed as a disadvantage. In better times, her experience and record would have mattered more than her party affiliation.
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True. Senator McCaskill is the most centrist person in the Senate. She was good for both sides. Extremists predominate these days and they see everyone else as an extremist also. If you're not 100% on their side then you must be 100% against them. There is no room for compromise. I have no idea how to fight that because intelligence, logic, and reason don't work with them.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
There wasn't any real encouraging news. The Senate appears to be more Republican than it was. The House is Democrat, but many key races across the nations went GOP. Georgia's much-touted governor's race was lost.

It doesn't look good for 2020. The media's leftist bias doesn't seem to be able to accurately read the totality of the population. The same blindness that didn't see 2016 coming didn't accurately read the continuing gap. Unsurprisingly, the 2016 polling gap is attributed to not correctly measuring non-college graduates in the non-urban areas. These are the same Americans so quickly discounted by both the media and the pundits on the left.

We need to find how to end the constant culture wars, as they are needlessly dividing the nation. We disagree on many points of policy, but we have to remain a nation, not two nations.
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All of the independent media got it right. Even though they have their biases they admit them and still give good info unlike mainstream media.
 
More good news for some states.

Tuesday was a new high for marijuana legalization advocates.

Michigan voted to approve a ballot measure, making it the first state in the Midwest to approve recreational usage for adults, joining nine other states and the District of Columbia. Additionally, Missouri approved medicinal marijuana measures and Utah looked likely, becoming the 32nd and 33rd respective states to do so. North Dakota’s ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana failed, however.
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I'm not surprised by Michigan joining the other border states to legalize...rather surprised that North Dakota didn't.

http://time.com/5447176/recreational-marijuana-ballot-measures-results/
 
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This is what change looks like.
 
The good news is Florida and Texas ar3 both heading toward being permanently blue due to changing demographics.
 
Even with Beto O'Rourke's loss in Texas... it was such a close contest, less than a quarter million vote difference. That would have been unthinkable in the recent past. The trends are hopeful for the future, long term. But for the foreseeable future, we'll be painfully divided near split through the middle. And no center strong enough to hold off the worst impulses of the right, more virulent at this time... or the left.
 
rareboy said:
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This is what change looks like.
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That's my state and so glad it's gotten so blue! With the demise of the moderate wing of the GOP, there isn't anything good about the red that would be of any use to the average voter. I don't like any party to dominate over a long term ordinarily, but the GOP move to the far right is too dangerous to give it power, so wherever we can push back against the red, I wholeheartedly cheer those efforts and support them.
 
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