Please name a positive thing that happened in this election

[IrishEyes]

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I want to focus on the positive for a moment. Please name something positive big or small that happened in yesterday's elections. It could be smaller local election, a ballot measure, a member of an underrepresented group being elected, poll numbers, a specific great candidate winning, an awful candidate losing, etc.

For instance,

1. Vermont was the only state to never have a female senator or congressman. That changed yesterday when Becca Balint won the house seat.

2. The winners of the governors race in MA, Maura Healey, and Oregon, Tina Kotek, are both lesbians. That means that we will have 3 states at the same time with governors who are lgbtqia+.

[leftieNanner]

1. Dems held off a Republican Super Majority in Wisconsin! nt

[a kennedy]

26. This was huge. 👏 👏 👏

[MLAA]

2. No sign of a red wave

[imanamerican63]

16. Ditto!

[budkin]

3. A snake-oil salesman lost the Senate race in PA

Adios Dr Oz!

[IrishEyes]

36. Thank goodness!

My wordle first guess of the day was quack in memory of him.

[Salviati]

4. Democrats take the MI legislature for the first time in 40 years

[piddyprints]

5. Fetterman beat the snake oil salesman!

Honestly, it gave me the willies thinking of Oz in our senate.

[Tetrachloride]

20. We need more Fetterman's.

[piddyprints]

22. Truly.

This race seemed super important to me, even though I don’t live in PA anymore. I mean, living in TN makes me want to live vicariously through people who can make a difference, I guess.

[Bluethroughu]

6. IL passed a ballot measure to amend the state Constitution

FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS to collectively bargain!

[MLAA]

23. That is a great one!

[Bluethroughu]

24. So excited!

[Withywindle]

44. YES, love this one

BIG WIN for workers. May it spread everywhere.

[mucifer]

53. and we kept our legislative supermajority gerrymandered But we got it

[gldstwmn]

7. Here you go:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=-F8-zqdePuWF0A6hK9ZmUA

[SheltieLover]

8. We experienced a beautiful Blue tsunami!

Much to the dismay of the corporate media & qpuke loving ruskie assets.

🏄‍♀️ 🏄‍♂️

[Biophilic]

9. Young people voted in large and passionate numbers. Nt

[iemanja]

10. The MN Senate went blue!

And Dems were reelected to all four statewide races, including Governor.

[chriscan64]

11. Trump yelled and screamed at the TV.

Then started looking around the room for someone to blame.

[Easterncedar]

12. Maine held onto the first female governor

And did not re-elect the …ahem (think of the children) vile, bullying, ignorant clown.

[central scrutinizer]

13. We held the seat of retiring Peter DeFazio

Over the creep the Rs ran

[catbyte]

14. Michigan re-elected our Democratic Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and, as mentioned

in an earlier post, flipped the State Legislature to blue. Democrats maintained control of the MI Supreme Court and we passed props to increase the financial transparency of politicians, approved early in-person voting, and abortion/contraception rights are now enshrined in our State Constitution.

It was a good day here in the Great Lakes State.

[Pathwalker]

56. And Elissa Slotkin won reelection in a newly drawn district!

My family helped by delivering four votes to her. Michigan really went BLUE!

[catbyte]

60. She's my rep, too, and I am beyond thrilled. She was behind when I went to bed last

night and I started to have 2016 flashbacks, but screwed up my courage this morning, checked the election results, and heaved a huge sigh of relief. I was happy that Helen Scholten won in the Grand Rapids area, also a newly redrawn. I lived in MI-03 for years until I moved to Lansing in 2015.

[IrishEyes]

86. Wonderful news.

Half of my family is from Michigan. It is nice that Michigan is a lovely shade of blue.

[liberalmediaaddict]

91. I'm so jealous

Wish my state was as progressive.

[catbyte]

92. It took 4 years and a lot of petitioning to get there.

By 2016, after years of total GQP rule, Michigan was devolving into awfulness. The legislature passed and Governor Snyder had signed all sorts of heinous laws into effect (Economic "managers" who could fire elected officials, which happened, unsurprisingly, mainly in towns/cities with large minority populations, the terrible "right to fire" law, taxing the elderly and disabled in order to give corporations a $1.8B tax break, they poisoned an entire city's water supply, the list goes on. The lowest point came in 2016 when Michigan helped Mango Mussolini slither into the White House.

Then, in late 2017, things got interesting.

It started when citizens decided to circulate petitions to put recreational marijuana and anti-gerrymandering props on the ballot in 2018. That energized a lot of folks which benefited Democrats. The MIDems ran Whitmer for Governor, as well as Jocelyn Benson for Secretary of State, and Dana Nessel for Attorney General. They were high-quality candidates with concrete plans to improve life here in Michigan as opposed to the MIGQP which ran party hacks -- the usual suspects, lol. The most important thing that happened in 2018 was when the voters passed the anti-gerrymandering prop. The state had been gerrymandered to a ridiculous degree by the GQP-controlled legislature in 2011, which all but ensured permanent GQP rule in the legislature. When that prop passed, redistricting following the 2020 census was taken out of the hands of the legislature and into the hands of an Independent Citizen's Redistricting Commission.

In 2020, voters flipped the Michigan Supreme Court to blue and the MIGQP lost even more seats in the legislature but still held the majority and the legislative gridlock continued.

In 2021, the Independent Citizen's Redistricting Commission got to work redrawing congressional districts in a more equitable manner. After Roe v. Wade was overturned and an awful 1931 law banning all abortions was threatening to be reinstated motivated the Prop 3 petition drive that succeeded in spite of massive MIGQP opposition, which brought us to the vote on Tuesday. If we hadn't flipped the MI Supreme Court to blue in 2020, there's a very good chance that the prop wouldn't have made it onto the ballot.

The result? We flipped both houses of the legislature to blue for the first time in 40 years, swept all the state offices, kept control of the Mi Supreme Court, and enshrined abortion/contraception rights into the state constitution.

None of this would've happened without the citizens saying "enough is enough" and deciding to do something about it. It's up to us to change things.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

15. Here in Los Angeles we swept out a "near-fascist" Sheriff.

The worst part, for me personally, is that I voted for Alex Villanueva in 2018. It is the only vote I've ever made (in a lifetime of voting) that I deeply (deeply) regret.

Villanueva positioned himself as a "progressive" in 2018 and had all the right endorsements from the party and unions. He snookered us all.

I'm elated that this thug is gone.

[blm]

17. Congressman Jeff Jackson (D-NC)

[Sky Jewels]

18. Trump's nut bowl of candidates crashed and burned, which

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validates the often criticized Dem strategy of working to get them nominated in the primaries instead of (relatively) sane R’s.

[mcar]

19. A young Democratic woman got elected

to the city council in my small, red, Florida city.

She won by 39 votes!

[IrishEyes]

32. Awesome. Good for her!

[Wicked Blue]

21. Maryland elected its first black governor!

And legalized recreational marijuana

[Deep State Witch]

30. LOL!

https://tenor.com/view/marijuana-drugs-pot-gif-8106075

[RobinA]

49. Maryland, Del and NJ

now have legalized recreational pot. Harrisburg????? Dollars are fleeing across the border.

[we can do it]

93. Not legal in Delaware.

Cannabis in Delaware is illegal for recreational use, though decriminalized for possession of small amounts. Medical use of cannabis is permitted for adult patients with certain serious illnesses.

[IrishEyes]

55. Wes Moore will be a good governor

I'm excited that he won.

[gab13by13]

25. I did not get upset with Kornacki.

[grantcart]

54. And we are proud of you 😂

[Sky Jewels]

64. ...

I didn't either, because I didn't watch him. He just about gave me a stroke on election night 2020.

[peggysue2]

27. We took Pennsylvania!

Shapiro and Fetterman won and it's a good sunny day in Delco.

[a kennedy]

29. Yes, this was an awesome win for both. 👏 👏 👏

[Deep State Witch]

28. Dems Swept MD Statewide Races

We have our first AA governor, Wes Moore, who is the third AA governor in the country. Our first AA Attorney General, Anthony Brown. Our first female Comptroller, Brooke Lierman. Our first Asian-American statewide officeholder, Aruna Miller (immigrated from India as a kid).

Oh, and MD legalized weed, too!

[Kennah]

52. I predict there will be Old Bay weed

[Deep State Witch]

69. LOL!

We Marylanders put Old Bay on everything!

[Kennah]

77. There's a place in Baltimore with Old Bay donuts

[Permanut]

31. No sign of Pillow Guy.

[IrishEyes]

50. He is crying somewhere in his pillow.

He will be back though. He has nothing else to do.

[Niagara]

33. Beto O'Rourke demonstrated courage, persistence, and

Empthy during his run for Governor.



He might have not won yesterday, but he inspired blue Texas voters.


Thank you, Beto!

[IrishEyes]

35. He seems to be a good person with a lot of great ideas.

I was hoping for him. He has done a lot of good for Texas. I hope he continues fighting.

[Niagara]

43. Absolutely!

I certainly hope he continues to fight as well.

[subterranean]

34. In my state, Sen. Patty Murray easily won reelection

despite some polls that indicated a very tight race.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

37. New Mexico replaced a Republican with a Democrat

in House District 1, despite a district re-drawing that might have favored the Republican.

[Captain Zero]

38. Andre Carson re-elected in Indy with 65%

Indianapolis' Congessman.
Indy is blue if nothing else in this shit hole state is.

[gratuitous]

39. Didn't Ohio pick up some House seats?

[IrishEyes]

41. I think Ohio was 11 rep, 4 dem before

Now they are 10 rep and 5 dem.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

73. It was 12 R, 4 D before.

They lost a seat in reapportionment.

[Norbert]

40. We retired Steve Chabot (R OH-01)

after 26 of 28 years in congress. This obviously was a Dem pickup in the House.

[Withywindle]

42. Three states voted to amend the state constitutions to specifically protect abortion rights

Michigan, California, and Vermont.

And Kentucky (KENTUCKY) voted NO on a measure to amend the state constitution to specifically NOT protect abortion rights, which means the fight for choice there just got a big leg-up.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/abortion-rights-2022-midterms

[Sky Jewels]

57. And Montana shot down an anti-choice referendum as well.

[RobinA]

45. Fetterman Won

after demonstrating in a debate a significant post-stroke deficit that was then highlighted repeatedly and negatively by his medical doctor opponent.

[hamsterjill]

46. Bexar County (San Antonio) elected a decent person as county judge.

He was running against an absolute idiot Republican.

The Republican had no real experience, and she already hates Javier Salazar, our sheriff who has been investigating the DeSantis and Abbott bussing of the migrants.

So this was a positive thing. The Democrat who won actually has experience and it was a positive thing that the crazies didn’t succeed in getting his opponent elected.

[IrishEyes]

58. I love hearing things like that.

[LeftInTX]

65. Yes! We did very well! (Our county wide Dems ranged from 55-58%)

Unfortunately gerrymandering f'd some house seats...I'm bummed about Frank Ramirez versus John Lujan. Frank is so good...

Can't believe they were able to crack and pack Bexar County, but they did....

Melissa Ortega won for BSOE! This is the new district which extends from San Antonio to El Paso.

[hamsterjill]

76. Congratulations!!!

I know you worked hard!!!

I feel so bad for the Uvalde families. Uvalde County voted 2 out of three for Abbott and it’s a direct slap to them in my opinion. I don’t know why Thomas J hasn’t stepped in yet!!! LOL. It is well PAST time!!!

[Initech]

47. Fetterman and Shapiro won!!!

[Act_of_Reparation]

48. The Michigan GOP got dunked on hard.

We got both houses of the state legislature. We got the governor. We got the Secretary of State. We got the AG. We got Prop 1, Prop 2, and Prop 3.

[jcgoldie]

51. Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas

Even though they gerrymandered to beat her!

[joshcryer]

72. Yessss!

[Sky Jewels]

59. Well, it officially happened today, but Tina Kotek won

the Oregon governor's race in spite of billionaire Phil Knight using some of his Nike $$$ to bankroll potential spoiler Betsy Johnson to get a Republican (Christine Drazan) elected governor of Oregon.

[jednick]

61. Wisconsin

I know that Johnson beat Mandela Barnes. But Republicans failed to unseat all of the statewide offices, especially governor and attorney general. And they failed to gain a veto-proof supermajority in the legislature, which had looked like a sure thing.

[IrishEyes]

63. Mandela Barnes only lost by around 27,000 votes.

Hopefully, we can get rid of Johnson in a future election. Barnes seemed like a good person. I hope he has a successful political career.

Great news about the governor, attorney general and legislature.

[Luciferous]

67. And we kept Evers in office 🙂

[sarcasmo]

62. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin all blue Governors. Huge win for 2024.

[nolabear]

66. Boebert be GONE!

I hear she and Hawley are going into the adult film business together.

[IrishEyes]

81. What a horrifying thought!

However, I don't care what they do as long as I never have to think about them again.

[Sky Jewels]

68. Wiley Nickel flipped a House seat blue in NC.

[mnhtnbb]

70. NC elected 7 Democrats to the US House of Representatives

which was a GAIN of TWO seats! One was a new seat due to Census count, and the other was a flip from Republican to Democrat.

We've been fighting gerrymandering by Republicans for over 10 years in the courts. Maps have been drawn and redrawn, up to the US Supreme Court and back again. At its worst, an almost equally divided state--in terms of total votes --was sending 10 Republicans and 3 Democrats to the US House of Representatives because the gerrymandering was so unfair. In 2023, NC will have 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans as Representatives to the US House.

[RussBLib]

71. Mayra Flores (Trumper) lost to Vicente Gonzalez

...keeping my Texas U.S. House rep blue.

[LeftInTX]

79. But the red flipped to the adjoining district, so the win was negated

But I hear you! I was redistricted into Tony Gonzales district from Joaquin Castro's. Now I'm stuck in a huge. freak'n, no hope ever, GOP district for the rest of my life. Yuck! Thx USSC. Lira only got 38% of the vote. I've lived here since 1994. Ugh. It was GOP when I moved here, but for 10 years, it was Democratic. I hate CD 23 with a passion.

[Deminpenn]

74. Dems picked up seats in the state

House and may have even flipped it blue!

Dems held PA-17, Conor Lamb's old seat. That means the Rs effectively lost the seat PA lost in 2020 Census.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

75. Nevada voted for equal rights

Nevada Question 1, Equality of Rights Amendment

Nevada Question 1, the Equality of Rights Amendment, was on the ballot in Nevada as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

A "yes" vote supported adding language to the Nevada Constitution that prohibits the denial or abridgment of rights on account of an individual's race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.

A "no" vote opposed this amendment to the Nevada Constitution that prohibits the denial or abridgment of rights on account of an individual's race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.

57% of Nevadans voted Yes.

[W_HAMILTON]

78. Americans on the whole showed that they care more about our democracy and abortion...

...that they do inflation, """crime,""" or any of the other conservative boogeymen that Republicans used to try and win.

[Tree Lady]

80. Oregon was able to keep democrat gov

Even with a spoiler that got many votes.

Super happy about Fetterman too, seeing Oz in the senate would have made my skin crawl.

[electric_blue68]

82. From NYC & NYS

NYC had some ballot proposals to address racial and other inequality.
It starts with an overall preamble of which this is a part:

“We, the people of New York City, declare that our city is a multiracial democracy, and that our diversity is our strength. We honor and respect the cultures, languages, and histories of all who call and have called this land home, and we celebrate their revolutionary imagination, courage, and resiliency.”

The preamble is to set the tone for new, and future proposals etc.
Such as setting up a Racial Equity Office inside the Mayor's office.

It also ties into NYS proposal about monies for climate change wherein watching out that poor neighborhoods often of color will get a far share, also maybe certain things to address already set inequities.
_____________________________

Gov Kathy Hochul won re-election and is now The First Woman Govenor of NYS.
_____________________________

Annnnd...

Letticia James won re-election as NYS AG.
Which means she can continue with her investigation (although it's civil) in to Trump's organization!
heh, Heh, HEH....

[Stinky The Clown]

83. The landslide election of Wes Moore as Maryland governor.

He will be a remarkable leader. Pay attention!!!

[Sky Jewels]

84. Gabe Vasquez just flipped NM-2

[IrishEyes]

94. I'm very happy about that!

[pansypoo53219]

85. wi guv prevailed. maybe senator stupid gets cancer.

[Music Man]

87. Kentucky voted No on the abortion ban amendment.

Also, my hometown of Lexington's new vice mayor is a wonderfully progressive activist named Dan Wu whom I'm very excited about. Lexington's incoming city council is outstanding.

On a personal note, while the Democrats lost seats in the KY legislature, it's looking like my Democratic state house rep (Cherlynn Stevenson) will win by 35 votes, and I did quite a bit of door-to-door on the last day for her. So I'm proud of myself

[IrishEyes]

88. That's great! Thank you for your hard work.

[liberalmediaaddict]

90. That's great news

Kentucky pleasantly surprised me yesterday. We're downright progressive compared to Indiana and Ohio.

[Meowmee]

89. Many of the nutcases did not win

Mainly for me Zeldin did not win and Hochul did. It should not have been as close as it was even in any of these races. So that is still extremely disturbing to me as are many other things. I think the ones that were really emotional for me were Fetterman and Shapiro winning and they gave amazing victory speeches. I remember feeling that way when Warnock and Ossoff won also. Except then it was giving us equal footing in the senate and Biden had just defeated dumpster.

[Sky Jewels]

95. Oregon passed a measure regulating gun purchases:

Measure 114:
- requires permits issued by local law enforcement to buy a firearm;
- requires photo ID, fingerprints, safety training, criminal background check, and fee payment to apply for a permit; and
- prohibits manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling, possessing, using, or transferring ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds and make violations a class A misdemeanor.