Yay

[turtledisc]

So Obama is the next President and McCain gave a very good concession speech (and sounded like the old McCain that most people liked).

And in a bizarre twist, Colorado has pretty much gone Democrat - went for Obama in the Presidential, now has 2 Democrat Senators and 5 out of 7 Representatives. Of course, the county I lived in is still resolutely Republican :-)

I'm trying to decide if I should stay up for Obama's speech - as I don't have to get up for work, I'm leaning towards doing that.

I'm also trying to work out if I have some kind of curse relating to US Presidential elections - this is the second one in a row where I've been made redundant just before it (although at least this time I'm not having to move countries as well).

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[miss-tartie.livejournal.com]

the Presidential result is good but the local Ballot resuts are just insane! At the moment it looks like evey state that voted on Gay marriages voted to Ban themjust.. *shakeshead*

sorry about the redundancy I missed that some how! I'm sure everything will work out for you!

EDITED: it turns out i can't read properly when i haven't had any sleep! *hangshead in shame*

[turtledisc]

I have to admit to being somewhat surprised (and pleased) that Colorado hasn't banned abortion - and even more impressed that the right-wing nutjobs in Colorado Springs didn't ban it either (they voted Republican in all other votes).

At least some of the other states have voted sensibly on their amendments - none of the abortion-related Ballots have been voted in, Michigan is allowing stem cell research and medical marijuana and Washington State is allowing Doctor-assisted suicide. Slowly but surely the USA is starting to move into the 20th century on these ideas (they're not quite at the 21st century yet).

As for the gay marriage ones - yeah that's completely nuts, but not exactly surprising. Plus, there's a whole host of issues 'cause of the Full Faith and Credit clause in the Constition (basically, any public acts, records, and judicial rulings of one state have to be respected by all states.) It's already being used to challenge DOMA and a ruling by the Federal Appeals court in 2007 stated that "Oklahoma's adoption amendment is unconstitutional in its refusal to recognize final adoption orders of other states that permit adoption by same-sex couples."