Talkingpointsmemo: The Dems' Big Big Night

[flpoljunkie]

The Dems’ Big Big Night

JOSH MARSHALL
NOVEMBER 9, 2011, 9:10 AM 1037

The results were not entirely unexpected. But the margins and the uniformity of last night’s election results tell an important story going into 2012. Across the country, Republican overreach coming out of the 2010 election was decisively rejected by voters in multiple states.

In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich’s signature anti-union legislation was rejected by an almost 2-1 margin. That’s a big win for the labor movement and will put in place a deep anti-Republican undercurrent next November. Kasich will be an albatross around the neck of the Republican nominee and there’s organization on the ground that will be an important force too.

But it wasn’t just Ohio. An anti-choice, anti-birth control “personhood” initiative was rejected in Mississippi. Maine voters rejected limits on voter registration — part of the larger Republican push to limit voting rights in 2012. And the author of Arizona’s controversial and trend-setting anti-immigration law looks to have lost a recall election.

What is telling about these numbers was not simply the consistency by which right-wing initiatives and candidates went down but in many cases the margins.

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[Ineeda]

1. We need to follow suit in Florida.

What a mess we have here: Voter suppression, anti-choice personhood crap, etc. We have no recall options for pRick Scott and his minions and notoriously low voter turn-out. Yesterday we had a city election. One city council seat and one referendum, so even less interest than usual. Of over 16K registered voters, under 4K exercised that right. Less than 25%. Disgusting.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. K & R

:kick:

[WI_DEM]

3. Now we need to follow up here in WI next year and recall Walker.