The Day After

[catscradle]

Well, Nick said yesterday that he almost wants to vote straight republican. If every seat was filled with them, we can get it all over with and plunge into the darkest depth now rather than drag it all out. At least then we'd know there would have to be a sunrise.

It's pretty close to that. As most of you know by now the Republicans took the Senate. They already had the House and the Governor seats. So we have a Republican congress, a Republican president and a conservative Supreme Court. Fun, fun, fun.

I checked out the Ohio 17th district congressional race. James Traficant - from jail - received 15% of the vote. I wanted to cry. So we at least know that 15% of the population of the 17th district are complete dipshits. The Republican won the race, so we know the dipshit percentage is actually much higher. It's probably been 50 years since a Republican held that seat.

So here we go - as of this morning, the Balance of Power:

The House

Republicans 226
Democrats 204

The Senate

Republicans 51
Democrats 46

Governors

Republicans 26
Democrats 19

Comments

[babaca.livejournal.com]

Nick called it correctly. I have many friends depressed by the results and I just reassure them that this county we live in probably went against the tide of the rest of this state (which is generally the case most of the time).