I'm not leaving New England

[gaspee]

For the next few years. A sea of blue except for the two weirdos up in Maine and one in New Hampshire. It's too cold to go up there this time of year anyway.

I can do anything I need without leaving the Rhode Island, MA, CT area with maybe a trip into NYC ever now and then. I'm just going to stick my head in the sand and pretend all the whackadoos out there don't exist.

I'm expecting gridlock in the Congress for the next two years and the republicans will embarrass themselves on a daily basis.

RI is in one of the worst economic positions in the country and yet we're still all blue. Every statewide office (except Chafee who is to the left of the dem who lost) and something like 98 out of 112 state reps are democrats. Go figure.

I think we're going to see a marriage equality bill in the next year or so in Rhode Island and that makes me even happier.

Edit to add:

All the bond issues passed, YES! And

We rejected changing the name of the state!

It's so weird that my local election results were sooooooooo good and the overall results were so bad. I'm having an up and down kind of day.

[Unvanguard]

1. I was thinking the same thing with respect to a marriage equality bill.

Public opinion in RI seems quite supportive, and now that homophobic asshole Carcieri isn't governor there anymore.

Here's hoping. Might compensate for the possible loss of New Hampshire.

[sharp_stick]

4. I remember when gay marriage was OK'd in

Connecticut. The typically nutty RW was declaring the end of the world but after a few weeks the fuss died down and now there is a tidy little industry that has popped up holding weddings/receptions geared toward gay people.

Even my fundie neighbor is no longer as adamantly opposed to it as he was before but he still thinks it's an affront to Gawd.

[eleny]

2. RI does appear to have a some sanity

[End Of The Road]

3. Got room for me?

Nah, it's too cold up your way.

I've chuckled over some threads today where people are thinking of moving to another country. I'd be happy just moving to a blue state.

New England has a respect for education that goes back to colonial days, and it shows with your elected officials. My only concern is that some of your races were a little close for comfort.

[whathehell]

5. Yup....I'm feeling the same....New England and California...and Chicago.

although I can't necessarily say the same for the rest of Illinois.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Sanity prevailed in CT too.

[virgogal]

7. Take a nice trip to Hawaii if you feel the urge to travel. Aloha !

[KamaAina]

8. You can stop off in CA on your way if you like.

It's still safe here, too.

[Warpy]

9. I spent over 20 years in Mass, largely for that reason

I'd lived in the south and the midwest. I knew first hand what they were like, the majority of people believing weird stuff that just wasn't true and had never been true and would never be true. I got into hot water with the SDS by trying to tell them what the rest of the country was like. They were all privileged college kids from the northeast who really had no clue and they resented my trying to hand them one.

I tend to bury my head in the sand here in NM, too. Although it's got a larger proportion of People who Believe Stupid Stuff than Mass. did, it's tolerable.

Unfortunately, I still know what the rest of the country is like, so the only prediction I made this year was that there would be surprises on both sides. We lost Feingold and Grayson. Think of the "too close to call" that they lost: Whitman, Fiorina, Angle, and others that aren't on the tip of my keyboard right now.

We need to start planning what to do to counter all the dirty money the Roberts court allowed in to their party.

[pipi_k]

10. Massachusetts....

We're small, but we're still blue.

And relatively sane.

:)