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Election Day Open Thread

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Good Morning Sky Dancers,

I woke up with such a splitting headache that I couldn’t even read anything, much less write. It’s a little better now, but still bad.

So here’s an open thread to start out with. If I can get rid of this headache, I’ll put up another post later on. It’s election day in some places, so here are some links about that.

CBS News: Voters head to the polls to elect governors in Va., N.J.

WaPo on Virginia governor’s race: Virginia governor’s race: early turnout strong, no significant problems at precincts

WaPo on NJ governor’s race: New Jersey voters deciding whether to give popular Republican Christie a 2nd term as governor

NYT on NYC mayoral race: De Blasio, Far Ahead in New York Mayoral Polls, Talks of Mandate; Lhota Hopes for Upset

Boston Globe on Boston mayoral race: Mayoral race tops ticket as voters head to polls

Are there any elections in your area?

What else is happening today?

Comments

44 responses to “Election Day Open Thread”

  1. bostonboomer Avatar
    bostonboomer

    I’m going to lie down for awhile, and I’ll be back later on. Take care, everyone.

    1. dakinikat Avatar

      Hope you get to feeling better soon! Take care!

    2. RalphB Avatar
      RalphB

      Take care of yourself. Be well soon,

    3. Fannie Avatar
      Fannie

      Feel better BB.

  2. janicen Avatar
    janicen

    I’m sorry you’re not feeling well, bb. I hope you start feeling better soon.

    I’m very excited about the election here in Virginia. Despite a weak candidate for the Democrats, we are going to win today and take the Commonwealth back from Tea Party control. It’s a good day here and I think it’s a good indicator of what could happen in 2016.

    1. dakinikat Avatar

      Yup. This time they can’t say the cooch lost because he wasn’t “conservative enough” too. This should be a lesson to them but it won’t school the right set of wing nuts.

    2. ANonOMouse Avatar
      ANonOMouse

      At this point I think many “true” conservatives are/have seen the Tea Party for what it is and want no part of it. Hopefully the nutcase TP’ers in the U.S. Congress and in State legislatures will meet the same fate their next election that Cooch will meet this one.

      1. dakinikat Avatar

        I don’t understand how you can be a conservative and a theocrat either. Nothing conservative in the US about installing a firebrand religious viewpoint into law as far as I am concerned.

        1. ANonOMouse Avatar
          ANonOMouse

          “I don’t understand how you can be a conservative and a theocrat either”

          It is baffling and almost as a confusing as libertarians who don’t support Choice or Gay Marriage.

  3. ANonOMouse Avatar
    ANonOMouse

    BB…..Hope you feel better soon.

    1. bostonboomer Avatar
      bostonboomer

      Thanks everyone for the good wishes. I’ve slept most of the day and still have a headache and nausea. But I just had to post these links:

      Bill Clinton On Obama: ‘He’s Luckier Than A Dog With Two Dicks’

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/bill-clinton-dog-comment-double-down_n_4191555.html

      http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-obama-luckier-dog-d-s-face-mitt-romney-article-1.1503962

      1. bostonboomer Avatar
        bostonboomer

        Obama sure comes off as a prig.

    1. dakinikat Avatar

      Really … whoa! Wonder what Greenwald will say now!!!

      1. RalphB Avatar
        RalphB

        Everyone else will be bootlickers of the man or something because huh.

        1. bostonboomer Avatar
          bostonboomer

          The only question–is Greenwald a knowing participant or a patsy?

          1. ANonOMouse Avatar
            ANonOMouse

            I can’t wait to hear the answer to that question. He has pooped in his nest.

    2. ANonOMouse Avatar
      ANonOMouse

      Brhahahaha!!! Goddam, spies are spying on spies and Merkel is couch fainting and world leaders are going “oh, ah, no” as they all spy on each other and the wheels on the spy bus go round and round.

  4. dakinikat Avatar

    Wow! Here’s more on Rand’s serial plagiarism. I still can’t figure how you get through University without figuring out that this is a big NO NO

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/section-of-rand-pauls-book-plagiarized-forbes-article

    1. List of X Avatar

      The big NO NO is not getting caught. That was probably Rand Paul’s plan.

      1. dakinikat Avatar

        You have to be a complete idiot to think in the day of plagiarism software and Google that you are not going to get caught.

  5. dakinikat Avatar

    The Koch Brothers are secretly funding the anti-choice movement’s worst offenders http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/the_koch_brothers_are_secretly_funding_the_anti_choice_movements_worst_offenders/ …

    1. RalphB Avatar
      RalphB

      I am convinced that if it’s absolutely shitty enough, with no redeeming quality, whatever it is the fucking Koch Brothers are secretly funding it. Colossal assholes!

    2. ANonOMouse Avatar
      ANonOMouse

      Other than money, WTF is their motive for staying knee deep in reproductive politics? It’s certainly not a “Moral” issue for them because they have no morals. The Crotch brothers need to take their $50 billion of combined wealth and go frack themselves. What a waste of protoplasm they are..

  6. JJ Lopez Minkoff Avatar

    BB, I hope your head starts to feel better…but think…your pain in your head is way better than the pain in the ass this guy had: Man gets anal search, colonoscopy, 3 enemas for “clenched buttocks”

    This story definitely falls in the OMG category. Some guy in New Mexico is coming out of a Walmart parking lot this past January when he rolls through a stop sign. The cops pull him over, order him out of the car, and then grow concerned when they think they see him “clenching his buttocks.”

    He must have drugs!

    So the police go and get a search warrant from a judge, who actually authorizes it, and proceed to take the man to a hospital, where the following takes place without his permission:

    They x-ray his abdomen, find nothing.
    They examine his anus digitally, find nothing.
    They examine his anus again digitally, find nothing.
    They give him an enema, make him defecate in front of the doctors and cops, examine his stool, and find nothing.
    They give him a second enema, find nothing.
    They give him a third enema, find nothing.
    They x-ray him again, find nothing.
    So what do they do next? Prepare him for surgery and give him a forced colonoscopy. And find nothing.

    Not surprisingly, the man is now suing the cops and the hospital.

    1. dakinikat Avatar

      This comes under the heading of I am appalled and worried. This from cross the river from me.
      Terrytown boy admits emulating TV wrestling moves when killing sister, 5 http://bit.ly/1b5DtWC

      1. RalphB Avatar
        RalphB

        Tragic and too common I’ll bet. We are awash in violence.

    2. RalphB Avatar
      RalphB

      The cops, doctors, nurses, and anyone else who had anything to do with that should go to jail for violations of this man’s civil rights and assault. Doctors should lose licenses and judges should be disbarred. Oh, and that man should own that fucking hospital!

      1. bostonboomer Avatar
        bostonboomer

        I have a feeling he’s going to get a very large payday. He should sue everyone involved.

    3. bostonboomer Avatar
      bostonboomer

      OMG!!

  7. bostonboomer Avatar
    bostonboomer
    1. Fannie Avatar
      Fannie

      Another reason to get happy……………shut his ass down. Rachel done good.

    2. JJ Lopez Minkoff Avatar

      Just put that in the post for tomorrow…lol

      1. bostonboomer Avatar
        bostonboomer

        It can’t get enough attention!

  8. RalphB Avatar
    RalphB

    VA elections may turn out to be a nail biter.

      1. dakinikat Avatar

        That is a good sign.

  9. Fannie Avatar
    Fannie

    Yeah, Yeah, Yeah……………Terry McAuliffe projected winner………waiting to see about Att. General………biting my nails.

    1. bostonboomer Avatar
      bostonboomer

      Weird.

      1. RalphB Avatar
        RalphB

        Very weird.

  10. bostonboomer Avatar
    bostonboomer

    DeBlasio won NYC mayor.

    Marty Walsh won in Boston–both candidates were Democrats, but Walsh was supported by the unions. Connolly was against the Teachers’ union.

    1. RalphB Avatar
      RalphB

      Amazing margin for his win. I’m anxious to see if he can address the inequality issues. Jeez, that’s gonna be tough but bless him for trying.

  11. RalphB Avatar
    RalphB

    Christie is a horrible speaker. If he runs for president, my TV will see a lot of mute. Loudmouthed cretin.