Election racialiciousness roundup
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A summary of post-election good news and bad news from Jack and Jill Politics, a cool blog that purports to offer “a Black Bourgeoisie perspective on American politics.”
Unfortunately, Bob Corker’s race-baiting tactics appear to have paid off. And so have Ward Connerly’s KKK-praising strategies to end affirmative action in Michigan. For more on that, check out BlackatMichigan.com.
Other good news
- Senator Man-Dog goes down in defeat. You might say he “screwed the pooch” on this one
- In middle America, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio hold Dems in governor seats
- Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee (R) is finished. Many people are saying they feel bad to lose the moderate Republican. I say this is a binary election. You’re either with us or against us, and we had to smoke the rethugs out. All of them. Sorry, Lincoln, but you chose the wrong party, son.
- The so-called “western” or “mountain” Democrats have a solid win of the Colorado governor’s office
and some bad news…
- Affirmative action gets cut in Michigan
- Bob “Miscegenation” Corker beats Ford
- Bill “Shake My Hands and Give Me AIDS” Frist may run for president
- Senator Macaca’s race is likely to involve many recounts and court appearances unless we can get Bush’s cousin to call it in Macaca’s favor
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
lizvelrene wrote:
You missed this one. Yay Massachusetts!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/candidates/articles/2006/11/08/its_patrick_in_a_romp/
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 1:13 pm ¶
Ailurophile wrote:
And good news from sunny Cali: Evil anti-environmentalist Richard Pombo had his ass handed to him by Jerry McNerny. W00t!
I was also glad to see minimum wage hike initiatives pass in so many states. This is a real victory for the working poor. Sad, however, to see all the anti-marriage initiatives.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 5:02 pm ¶
Kenda wrote:
I’ll be really disappointed if George Allen wins. He’s probably my least-liked senator.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 7:11 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
>Sad, however, to see all the anti-marriage initiatives.
Arizona (!) was the first state to have such a measure fail. Some says that means a push for a federal ammendment is off the table. Give it enough time the rhetoric on both sides to cool off and for people to see that in MA, VT, and NJ the sky does not fall (and the divorce rate stays at its depressingly high level), and such measures will seem a pointless waste of taxpayer money.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 8:08 pm ¶
Jill Tubman wrote:
Thanks for the link and your own smart take on election results, Carmen.
Posted 11 Nov 2006 at 5:20 pm ¶