So, let's see...

[thanate]

We have conclusively proven that Mitt Romney, like the Quebecois separatists, can't even win a rigged election, and the people of MD have decided the newlywed girls next door get to to stay married. They also decided to keep the appallingly jerrymandered (um, how is that spelled?) redistricting plan, by a rather larger margin, but hey, we tried. Having grown up in Northern Virginia through years where my mostly liberal and at least fairly sane neighbors were consistently outvoted by the deep-south level "conservative" crazies downstate, I continue to find it weird to live in a state where the liberal Democrats behave nearly as badly. But this is also the only place I've voted where I felt it was safe to cross my fingers & vote Green party for president, so there's that. Anxiously awaiting everyone shutting up about politics again for a little while.

Anyway, I've had a stupid sinus headache since Monday night, and I still need to eat and pack up the cat to face his doom (um, yearly vet check-up & booster vaccines) so perhaps I should get on that.

Comments

[jazzfish]

Gerrymandered. (Linking mostly because I like the cartoon.)

Also, why on earth does the US not have a nonpartisan elections board to draw district lines. *sigh*

[thanate]

Darned if I know. Of course, there were a bunch of other things on this ballot that I looked at and wondered why in the world they didn't do them the sensible way-- like the "in state tuition for unregistered people" nonsense where my first question on reading the actual wording of the bill is why the heck attending 3 years of high school in MD is not sufficient to prove residency.

Thanks.