Election Results

[Benton]

(11-07-2018, 10:40 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I'm very encouraged by the national results. Our country always does better with a split Congress. One party control is for Communists and fascists. Also, the new influx of female congresswomen and senators is a great boon to our country.

Statewide, I am less encouraged by the results. With the possible exception of our senate race, which is still too close to call, and the rejection of Prop 305, it appears as if most of the voters here just went in and checked straight party line. The one very disturbing thing in all of this is the approval of Prop 306: a measure that requires all rules by our bi-partisan Clean Elections Commission to be reviewed by a governor-appointed regulatory council. This is an effort to subvert the will of the voters who approved the commission decades ago so that the controlling party can gerrymander districts.

Oh well. What comes around, goes around.

Pretty much the same here in Kentucky.

We passed (last I heard, hadn't checked the final numbers) marsys law, a not so great ballot measure that's going to choke our courts. And (at least in Western Kentucky) we kept state Rep s red, which was very surprising given the local fallout over their tax hikes and attempts to cut teacher pensions.