WE DID IT!

[peroxidepirate]

Wednesday.
The day after election day.

GODS BE PRAISED, WE DID IT!

Barack Obama won the presidential election so solidly that *even recounts or flipped results in Florida AND Ohio wouldn't undo his victory*. Democrats hold the senate. Rape apologists and unchecked misogynists got voted out in multiple races. Puerto Rico voted to move toward statehood

Comments

[brigittefires]

we didn't entrench the right of public employees to unionize

As I understood it the issue here is that it wasn't just "public" employees but ALL employees--as in a small business with one employee could have that employee calling on the local union to "collectively" bargain for them. Which might be nice in getting women better pay, but ultimately sounded like a bunch of badness. And I think still doesn't belong as a constitutional amendment.

which would have unionized all home healthcare workers in the stateAt issue here is the fact that this wouldn't have unionized the workers, but would have required, for example, my dad to get certified and background checked in order to drive my grandma to her doctor appointments. This word from my aunt, whose job it would have become to train a lot of these home workers and oversee them. She's pretty glad it didn't pass, as it was apparently all bad in a lot of ways. If no other way than that this wasn't a law that belonged in the constitution

[kaffy_r]

It was good to wake up today. Very, very good.

[elsceetaria]

Now that I am back in Georgia, I live in a very RED area (in fact, the district that sent Newt Gingrich to the House multiple times). Ignoring the local elections, it was a good day to stay up and watch the coverage coming in across the country, and the local while not good, could have been worse. It was

I've been pretty blah for the past few days, so I understand.