State Election Results
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-07/state-election-results
Last night Republicans held on to their majority in the House. Democrats retained a slim lead in the Senate by winning a series of high profile races. In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren unseated Scott Brown. In Indiana, Democrat Joe Donnelly took the seat once held by Richard Lugar and considered a Republican stronghold. At the statehouse level, North Carolina Republican Pat McCrory will be the first GOP governor since 1988. Maine and Maryland became the first states in the country to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote. Washington state and colorado voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. A panel of journalists joins Diane to discuss highlights of state elections and what they portend for the nation.
Guests
Nathan Gonzales
deputy editor of The Rothenberg Political Report.
Greg Giroux
political reporter for Bloomberg News.
Susan Davis
chief congressional reporter for USA Today.
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Hmmmmm........
Could it be that certain ethnicities of people, having experienced hundreds of years in bondage and foul inhumane conditions, might develop at least a modicum of suspicion - that is, being "trained to look for racism" in those outside their ethnicity?
Could it be that ongoing trickery and vote suppression and a nationwide coordinated program of unneeded voter ID laws and contorted regulations might be seen as further evidence of (shudder) "racism" ?
Could it be possible that supporters of the only non-white President whose heritage and qualifications are subjected to continual barrages of legitimacy, whose day to day efforts are labeled by a defeated VP candidate as "shucking and jiving", who has been said to be "not American", whose Christian upbringing has been erroneously tagged as Muslim, whose pre-Presidency community labors have benn denigrated as "socialist" and "communist".........ad infinitum, might possibly see racial implications in the comments of others?
Just imagine......
I have heard it said that 2012 is the last Presidential election in which Republicans will be competitive due to the changing demographics. If true, then we can expect the fight to focus instead on the state level where Republicans still have a lock on many (most?) state goverments. That would mean referenda on the next round of state election ballots to remove redistricting authority from the hands of partisans. The reason that the House of Representatives is still in the hands of the Republicans is that elected officials choose their voters through gerrymandering districts instead of the voters choosing their representatives through free and fair elections. Want to fix America? Fix redistricting.