Georgia voted down the opportunity school district by 60-40. It was a plan to allow the state to take over a limited number of failing schools every year. There were about 100 failing schools in the state, half in Atlanta and neighboring DeKalb schools districts. I think they were limited to taking over 10 a year.

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Houston was all Dem. Every single county wide Harris County official running as a Democrat won. There were 2 county wide Dems on Monday... Now there are about 30 of them. Harris County went Dem for the first time in decades in 08 by about 3 percent. In 2012 Obama won by less than 0.1%. HRC won by 13%. Dems won Fort Bend County too.

In Dallas it was the same story. Literally hundreds of Dems turned out Republicans on Tuesday.

10% was the statewide margin for DJT on Tuesday. 16% for Romney in 2012. I think the GOP will need to worry about Texas in about 8 years.

Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

I think there were more Libertarians than Democrats on the ballot here in Montgomery County.

(11-10-2016 09:21 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I think there were more Libertarians than Democrats on the ballot here in Montgomery County.

Yea, Fort Bend and Harris are moving quickly to the Dems.

Galveston was still heavily GOP but moving towards the Dems.

Montgomery is overwhelmingly GOP but moved towards the Dems by 5% in 2016. But the Dem vote up there moved from 18 to 23 percent.

(11-10-2016 09:16 PM)bullet Wrote:  Georgia voted down the opportunity school district by 60-40. It was a plan to allow the state to take over a limited number of failing schools every year. There were about 100 failing schools in the state, half in Atlanta and neighboring DeKalb schools districts. I think they were limited to taking over 10 a year.

I was in the minority on that vote. But I didn't care one way or another.

Rubio smashed Patrick Murphy in the Senate race, he had no name recognition outside his Palm Beach congressional district and his endorsements from Obama and Biden didn't do a damn thing. My Republican state rep ran for state senate and won in a close election, a local strip club owner played spoiler. Her old seat will be filled by another Republican who won in a landslide, she's a civil engineer who won her primary against an establishment-backed opponent who spent twice as much as her.

Amendment 1 was the "solar rights" measure which claimed to protect the right to put panels on your house and prohibited (in name) non-solar users from subsidizing those with panels, but it was backed big time by crony utility companies and as that got press they lost endorsements down the stretch; it got a simple majority but failed to get the necessary 60%. Amendment 2 was the medical MJ measure which won by a large margin; I had a good chuckle at the anti-weed campaign sign in front of my polling station, it had a clip art picture of a cannabis leaf, a stock photo of some kids at a playground, and comic sans font that said "NO ON 2, FOR THE CHILDREN!" I didn't see many anti-amendment two signs period but none of them looked like that, so that leads me to believe some anti-pot crusader in South Tampa just made a dozen of them on their own.

(11-10-2016 09:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Houston was all Dem. Every single county wide Harris County official running as a Democrat won. There were 2 county wide Dems on Monday... Now there are about 30 of them. Harris County went Dem for the first time in decades in 08 by about 3 percent. In 2012 Obama won by less than 0.1%. HRC won by 13%. Dems won Fort Bend County too.

In Dallas it was the same story. Literally hundreds of Dems turned out Republicans on Tuesday.

10% was the statewide margin for DJT on Tuesday. 16% for Romney in 2012. I think the GOP will need to worry about Texas in about 8 years.

Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

So you want a 52% majority to get 100% of the judges?

And do you really think you are qualified and able to evaluate 60 judges races?

(11-10-2016 09:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Houston was all Dem. Every single county wide Harris County official running as a Democrat won. There were 2 county wide Dems on Monday... Now there are about 30 of them. Harris County went Dem for the first time in decades in 08 by about 3 percent. In 2012 Obama won by less than 0.1%. HRC won by 13%. Dems won Fort Bend County too.

In Dallas it was the same story. Literally hundreds of Dems turned out Republicans on Tuesday.

10% was the statewide margin for DJT on Tuesday. 16% for Romney in 2012. I think the GOP will need to worry about Texas in about 8 years.

Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

So you want a 52% majority to get 100% of the judges?

And do you really think you are qualified and able to evaluate 60 judges races?

Its been like that for the four decades of GOP rule in Harris. I'll trade it for percentage seat represnetation in Texas House, Texas Senate and the Texas Congressional Delegation....

Once a Republican stronghold, sadly Hamilton County Ohio has gone full on democrat based on the local election results. The MSD is a mess and mismanaged with no oversight. CPSD is a mess but they voted to throw more money at it! Yay!

We'd lived in Hamilton County for 18 years but thankfully we got out moving to a solid red suburban Cincinnati county.

(11-10-2016 09:11 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:48 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:46 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:40 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:36 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  Here in NC we (Democrats) won a State Supreme Court seat that gave us a majority. That was very important as for the last 6 years Republicans have controlled all three branches. I don't know if we can keep it as the state constitution allows the general assembly to increase the number of justices. There is a rumor circulating that they may pass legislation to do that and then appoint two Republicans to the Court.

We appear to have taken back the governor's mansion but it is too close to call. The council of state was really a mixed bag. We appear to have won Attorney General as well.

The General Assembly continues to be totally controlled by the Republicans with super majorities so winning the governorship is a limited victory.

My county is totally Republican. We now have only one Democrat on the School Board and one County commissioner, down from two. Our Clerk of Court and Register of Deeds are Democrats but when they retire I suspect that will change as well.

I live in a very Republican world.

What county Dawg?
New Hanover county did a 2 to 1 gop to dem split on the county commissioner's maintaining the gop 3 to 2 edge

School board was a GOP sweep maintaining the 5 to 0 GOP advantage on the school board. New Hanover is big on neighborhood schools and does not appear to want to do anything to put that at risk again

Harnett County

D's winning (or possibly winning) Council of State = Stein, Wood, and Marshall.

How serious is court packing rumor?

That would be very very dumb

Just make it a partisan race moving forward and let it fix itself

Just heard the rumor today, not sure how possible it is, but wouldn't shock me.

With or without the R or D by the name, the party that has the advantage (recently the Rs) will make sure voters know who their candidate is. That was what was so shocking about the margin in the Morgan race. You know as well as do that every Republican sample ballot handed out at the polls had Edmonds name on it. Perhaps it was the ballot placement, or people just liked the name, or maybe word of mouth or reputation?

Maybe it was the unaffiliated effect? There were a lot of people that voted for Trump and then Cooper.

Edmonds was the only one not labeled and he was below the democrat not above like all the others. I would venture to guess most people had no idea so they left it blank which would explain why that race had 500k less votes than all the others.

Live and learn NC GOP don't do anything stupid

We now have marijuana.

(11-10-2016 09:31 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:21 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I think there were more Libertarians than Democrats on the ballot here in Montgomery County.

Yea, Fort Bend and Harris are moving quickly to the Dems.

Galveston was still heavily GOP but moving towards the Dems.

Montgomery is overwhelmingly GOP but moved towards the Dems by 5% in 2016. But the Dem vote up there moved from 18 to 23 percent.

Wasn't that long ago Galveston was overwhelmingly Democrat. Not a single Republican official. 15 years maybe? Same for Brazoria. I imagine there is a solid Republican presence there with the growth of Pearland.

(11-10-2016 09:53 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Houston was all Dem. Every single county wide Harris County official running as a Democrat won. There were 2 county wide Dems on Monday... Now there are about 30 of them. Harris County went Dem for the first time in decades in 08 by about 3 percent. In 2012 Obama won by less than 0.1%. HRC won by 13%. Dems won Fort Bend County too.

In Dallas it was the same story. Literally hundreds of Dems turned out Republicans on Tuesday.

10% was the statewide margin for DJT on Tuesday. 16% for Romney in 2012. I think the GOP will need to worry about Texas in about 8 years.

Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

So you want a 52% majority to get 100% of the judges?

And do you really think you are qualified and able to evaluate 60 judges races?

Its been like that for the four decades of GOP rule in Harris. I'll trade it for percentage seat represnetation in Texas House, Texas Senate and the Texas Congressional Delegation....

Screw those country rednecks. They don't deserve representation

(11-10-2016 10:04 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:31 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:21 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I think there were more Libertarians than Democrats on the ballot here in Montgomery County.

Yea, Fort Bend and Harris are moving quickly to the Dems.

Galveston was still heavily GOP but moving towards the Dems.

Montgomery is overwhelmingly GOP but moved towards the Dems by 5% in 2016. But the Dem vote up there moved from 18 to 23 percent.

Wasn't that long ago Galveston was overwhelmingly Democrat. Not a single Republican official. 15 years maybe? Same for Brazoria. I imagine there is a solid Republican presence there with the growth of Pearland.

Its been really really Republican for a long time now. Bill Clinton won a plurality there in 1996. Dukakis got a majority there 28 years ago.

(11-10-2016 09:57 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Once a Republican stronghold, sadly Hamilton County Ohio has gone full on democrat based on the local election results. The MSD is a mess and mismanaged with no oversight. CPSD is a mess but they voted to throw more money at it! Yay!

We'd lived in Hamilton County for 18 years but thankfully we got out moving to a solid red suburban Cincinnati county.

Hamilton county is blue surrounded by a sea of red.........I'm in one of those red counties as well.

(11-10-2016 09:53 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 08:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Houston was all Dem. Every single county wide Harris County official running as a Democrat won. There were 2 county wide Dems on Monday... Now there are about 30 of them. Harris County went Dem for the first time in decades in 08 by about 3 percent. In 2012 Obama won by less than 0.1%. HRC won by 13%. Dems won Fort Bend County too.

In Dallas it was the same story. Literally hundreds of Dems turned out Republicans on Tuesday.

10% was the statewide margin for DJT on Tuesday. 16% for Romney in 2012. I think the GOP will need to worry about Texas in about 8 years.

Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

So you want a 52% majority to get 100% of the judges?

And do you really think you are qualified and able to evaluate 60 judges races?

Its been like that for the four decades of GOP rule in Harris. I'll trade it for percentage seat represnetation in Texas House, Texas Senate and the Texas Congressional Delegation....

Wrong. You must be young. Harris County judges were 100% Democrat until around 1990. Any lawyer who wanted to be a judge had to run as a Democrat. There was about a 6 year period when it was competitive. The Republicans wouldn't run anyone against the good judges. Democrats ran somebody in every race. Then sometime in the early to mid 90s the Republicans took over. Judge Katie Kennedy was the last Democrat judge and then she either got beaten or chose not to run knowing she would lose. Then it started flipping back to the Democrats 2 or 4 years ago.

The legislature was controlled by the Democrats for the entire history of Texas until 2000 except Reconstruction. George W. Bush was governor with a Democratic majority the whole time. John Tower, elected to replace LBJ when he became VP, as Senator was the only Republican statewide official elected from the end of reconstruction until Gov. Clements won election in 1978. It wasn't until the 90s that Republican state officials were anything other than an oddity. Then in 2000(?) they swept all the statewide offices.

Republican control is very recent.

Remove StGov Religious Ban: No. Ten Commandments issue.
Allow Any Execution Method Unless prohib by USConst: Yes. Allows executions to go forward when one form of death is stopped.
Reduce Criminal Sentences For drug, property crime: Yes. Small amount of some drugs now a misdemeanor instead of felony. Downside, bumped misdemeanor property crime(theft) from 500 to 1000.
Also a rehabilitation fund to go along with this one passed.
Revise Alcholic Bev Laws: Yes. Allows sales of wine in grocery and convenience stores and allows liquor stores to sell other items besides booze. Cross state lines sales. Mostly ending stupid ****.
Farming and Ranching Right, Limits legislative power: No. Fear of unregulated foreign Multis Ags taking over defeated this one.
Sales Tax for Education, Funds teacher pay raises: No. Something like half went to raises, the rest to administration.

The Reddest state for Trump.

And still Gave 6% to the Libertarians.

(11-10-2016 10:05 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:53 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:20 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-10-2016 09:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  Maybe they will make some sense out of the judicial elections and break them into county commissioner districts in the largest 5-10 counties. What is it, about 60 judges you have to vote for in Harris County? Its ridiculous.

No sir. That would be a gerrymander for the GOP. Maybe they will, but that would be only to try to keep Democrats from winning elections once a county flips.

So you want a 52% majority to get 100% of the judges?

And do you really think you are qualified and able to evaluate 60 judges races?

Its been like that for the four decades of GOP rule in Harris. I'll trade it for percentage seat represnetation in Texas House, Texas Senate and the Texas Congressional Delegation....

Screw those country rednecks. They don't deserve representation

You don't understand Harris County.

Updates have Cooper up in the Governor's race by 2,500 but there are "thousands" of military absentee ballots and provisionals to be counted, plus a recount of the 90000 Durham county votes that were counted by hand and came in after midnight. Going to be after thanksgiving before we know anything.

Good thing Cooper already gave his acceptance speech!! Ha ha! What an idiot.