Yesterday's Election Results

• Kentucky: Corrupt Republican Ernie Fletcher crushed by Steve Beshear.


• Mississippi: Barbour wins convincingly. Not a surprise, as the Bush justice department has does its best to criminalize contributions to Democrats there, and FEMA has been doing their best to pump him up, at the expense of others states effected by Katrina.


• New Jersey: Basically a wash, but when one considers that the Republicans owned government in the 1990s, I think that the Talibaptists have lost this state for a generation.


• Maryland: The elections were in Baltimore City, but I'm not sure if there were even Republicans runnings. As to the Greens, I've never seen a group who claims to be liberal to be more dismissive of Black and Hispanic issues. The real election was in the primary.
  


• Virginia: Democrats take control of the state senate, and make major gains in the House of Delegates. (about 4 seats) It is particularly satisfying that Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, wife of wingnut US Congressman Tom Davis, lost in her bit for re-election to the State Senate.