Election Results
Hawaii Results
1) Linda Lingle got re-elected as governor of Hawaii. However, the Democrats kept control of the state legislature, as well as Hawaii's entire US congressional delegation. So it means that Hawaii is still mostly Democrat, though a moderate Republican can win if the Democrat candidate is really weak.
National Results
Democrats took over Congress. That means several things!
1) The US will probably withdraw from Iraq before the 2008 elections.
2) Remember when Rush Limbaugh was mocking Micheal J Fox's ads for several Democrat candidates? Fox was supporting the Democrat candidates who supported federally funding stem cell research! Limbaugh said Fox's Parkinson's symptoms shown in the video was fake! Those comments from Limbaugh got a lot of controversy.
One of the candidates supported by Micheal J Fox was Claire Caskill who was running for Missouri's seat in the US Senate! She won, and she said Limbaugh's comment s indirectly helped Fox's cause and her candidacy.
3) Some Republican candidates made anti-immigration ads in hope it will make Democrats be on the defensive for their pro-immigration views.
One of those candidates was Vernon Robinson, a Republican from North Carolina. He calls himself the "black Jesse Helms". His ads portrayed Mexican immigrants as criminals, illegal aliens, flag burners and said they'll take American jobs. Robinson was encouraging people to be afraid of immigration!
Those ads didn't work! He lost!
Some Republicans haven't learned the lesson of the 1990's. Republicans in California were promoting anti-immigration laws in the early 1990's. Many Latinos who didn't vote before, woke up and started voting. They helped the Democrats win in California in the late 1990s. Then-Texas governor George W. Bush took notice, and thought that the Republicans need to be more pro-immigration. Bush won the Presidency TWICE without hating on immigrants.
Meanwhile, the Republican senator from Virginia, George Allen was mocking the Democrat campaign volunteer who happened to be of Indian descent as a "macaca", and told him "Welcome to America". Ironically, that Indian guy was born in Virginia. It was Allen who migrated from California to Virginia!
The Democrat running for the same position, James Webb, was falling behind until Allen mocked the Indian guy. Then Webb gained momentum because of Allen's comments! Webb ended up winning the Senate seat in what was once a mostly Republican state!
Racism doesn't help you win elections anymore. It didn't even help those 2 Republicans running in the former Confederate states!
The Latino and Asian population in America is growing. And they're no longer just confined to the coastal areas or the Southwest. Some whites and blacks still fear them coming! But as time goes by, more people get used to the larger presence of Latinos and Asians. Politicians can no longer mock them with impunity.
4) Some of the Democrats who won were culturally conservative on issues like abortion and gay marriage. Many of them were from the usually Republican Southeast and Rocky Mountain areas. So the liberal Democrats will have to acknowledge that!
However, some of the newly elected Democrat representatives were also left-wing liberals. So the conservatives pundits should acknowledge that too!
For more info, check out this article by John Nichols
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=139093
Monday, November 06, 2006
Elections Tommorrow
Because I am working at one of the voting places tommorrow, I did a walk-in vote last week.
1) I already re-elected Linda Lingle for governor. Hawaii's economy is a lot better under Lingle than it was under Ben Cayetano
2) There's thousands of people who say "why should I vote, it's not like it's gonna matter!"
If those thousands of people voted, it could make a BIG difference. You got to be part of a collective sometimes. People got to pull together. Just like us spending money affects the economy. I dont hear anyone say "why should I spend money, not like it's gonna matter!"
In a democracy, people get to choose their leaders. Do you want someone to chose the leaders for you?
If you are eligible to vote, but don't, then don't complain when there's a new law that you don't like! You had your chance to choose your leaders, but you didn't! You let others chose the leaders! You let others tell you what to do!
3) Some liberal Democrats say that the voter ID laws passed by many states is discriminatory because lower-income people & non-whites are less likely to have an ID.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/06/arizona_voters/
This is how I responded to that article!
Here in Hawaii, ( a mostly Democrat state) people need an ID to vote and no one is complaining.
Democrats shouldn't be complaining about the ID requirement, they should just encourage their fans to get their IDs. They should've done this MONTHS AGO!
And stop this race crad, class card stuff already.
I am part Latino and I dont make much money, but I got my ID a long time ago. Everyone should get one! It's not a race or class thing! It's a common sense thing!
4) Michael J Fox made a few ads supporting Democrat candidates, citing their support of federally-funded stem-cell research!
Rush Limbaugh was mocking Michael J Fox, saying that his symptons shown on camera was faked, and claimed it was politically motivated.
If Limbaugh believes that medical research ought to be done in the private sector instead of by government, why didn't he just say that? Why did he pick on Michael J Fox?
5) John Kerry said to an audience at a California college, that if you don't study, you could end up stuck in Iraq. Kerry was implying that those who don't do well in school, end up with less options and more likely to resort to joining the military.
But many military officers had a college education!
John Kerry said he was saying a "botched joke" about President Bush! I think Kerry should stop trying to be funny, since that's not his main strength!
Because I am working at one of the voting places tommorrow, I did a walk-in vote last week.
1) I already re-elected Linda Lingle for governor. Hawaii's economy is a lot better under Lingle than it was under Ben Cayetano
2) There's thousands of people who say "why should I vote, it's not like it's gonna matter!"
If those thousands of people voted, it could make a BIG difference. You got to be part of a collective sometimes. People got to pull together. Just like us spending money affects the economy. I dont hear anyone say "why should I spend money, not like it's gonna matter!"
In a democracy, people get to choose their leaders. Do you want someone to chose the leaders for you?
If you are eligible to vote, but don't, then don't complain when there's a new law that you don't like! You had your chance to choose your leaders, but you didn't! You let others chose the leaders! You let others tell you what to do!
3) Some liberal Democrats say that the voter ID laws passed by many states is discriminatory because lower-income people & non-whites are less likely to have an ID.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/06/arizona_voters/
This is how I responded to that article!
Here in Hawaii, ( a mostly Democrat state) people need an ID to vote and no one is complaining.
Democrats shouldn't be complaining about the ID requirement, they should just encourage their fans to get their IDs. They should've done this MONTHS AGO!
And stop this race crad, class card stuff already.
I am part Latino and I dont make much money, but I got my ID a long time ago. Everyone should get one! It's not a race or class thing! It's a common sense thing!
4) Michael J Fox made a few ads supporting Democrat candidates, citing their support of federally-funded stem-cell research!
Rush Limbaugh was mocking Michael J Fox, saying that his symptons shown on camera was faked, and claimed it was politically motivated.
If Limbaugh believes that medical research ought to be done in the private sector instead of by government, why didn't he just say that? Why did he pick on Michael J Fox?
5) John Kerry said to an audience at a California college, that if you don't study, you could end up stuck in Iraq. Kerry was implying that those who don't do well in school, end up with less options and more likely to resort to joining the military.
But many military officers had a college education!
John Kerry said he was saying a "botched joke" about President Bush! I think Kerry should stop trying to be funny, since that's not his main strength!
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