Aftermath of this Election
Barack Obama will be President come January.
I'll skip the "history made" and such that has been discussed ad-nauseam on the networks.
Instead, the first thing that you'll see with this is the lame duck session that will be comming shortly. This would have been a strange session either way, since we would see a sitting senator become President. With Obama now the official President-elect, we will have to see how he'll act while he is still a senator, even during a lame duck session.
And as I suspected, the Democrats did not get the 60-seat requirement for a filibuster proof senate. I know one discussion on CNN was that the Republicans, reeling from the defeats of the the '06 and '08 elections, would not use the filibuster that often to avoid looking partisan. The problem I see with that: they now have less power than they had in the past two years. They NEED the filibuster to have any relavency in politics. Even if the Democrats try to reach across the isle, it may be tough due to the Republicans having no clear leader.
One last thing to watch in the comming days in the senate races: the Minnisota Race between incumbant Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. As of this post, they are in a near dead tie, with recounts to ensure.
While the legislative and executive branches have been getting attention from this election, some ballot measure are sure to give the judicial branch some election aftermath love.
Arizona, Arkansas, California and Florida took up the matter on gay rights. Arkansas is the different of the other three because this ballot measure banned adopting to gay couples. The other three called for a ban on gay marriage. With all these measures looking to be passed, expect this to be a major issue for the courts.
On the other hand, it looks like voters widely rejected a probably court battle as Colorado rejected an outright ban, and South Dakota rejected a measure that would have limited late-term abortions. Even a measure in California, on parental notification, was rejected.
So if you're tired of politics, you'll just have to ignore it. Politics will be continuing in the comming weeks, months, and years.
EDIT: corrected some mis-interpreted results. I really don't like the format that CNN put out, which showed the "winner" first, which confuses me when the No's win, as it appears first.
I'll skip the "history made" and such that has been discussed ad-nauseam on the networks.
Instead, the first thing that you'll see with this is the lame duck session that will be comming shortly. This would have been a strange session either way, since we would see a sitting senator become President. With Obama now the official President-elect, we will have to see how he'll act while he is still a senator, even during a lame duck session.
And as I suspected, the Democrats did not get the 60-seat requirement for a filibuster proof senate. I know one discussion on CNN was that the Republicans, reeling from the defeats of the the '06 and '08 elections, would not use the filibuster that often to avoid looking partisan. The problem I see with that: they now have less power than they had in the past two years. They NEED the filibuster to have any relavency in politics. Even if the Democrats try to reach across the isle, it may be tough due to the Republicans having no clear leader.
One last thing to watch in the comming days in the senate races: the Minnisota Race between incumbant Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. As of this post, they are in a near dead tie, with recounts to ensure.
While the legislative and executive branches have been getting attention from this election, some ballot measure are sure to give the judicial branch some election aftermath love.
Arizona, Arkansas, California and Florida took up the matter on gay rights. Arkansas is the different of the other three because this ballot measure banned adopting to gay couples. The other three called for a ban on gay marriage. With all these measures looking to be passed, expect this to be a major issue for the courts.
On the other hand, it looks like voters widely rejected a probably court battle as Colorado rejected an outright ban, and South Dakota rejected a measure that would have limited late-term abortions. Even a measure in California, on parental notification, was rejected.
So if you're tired of politics, you'll just have to ignore it. Politics will be continuing in the comming weeks, months, and years.
EDIT: corrected some mis-interpreted results. I really don't like the format that CNN put out, which showed the "winner" first, which confuses me when the No's win, as it appears first.
posted by SeanM at 9:34 AM
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