Election night - wow!
Nov. 8th, 2006 02:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkThat worked out even better than I expected. Dems handily took the House: no surprise there. But as of 2am it's looking very much like the Senate is either split down the middle or with a razor-thin majority for the Dems! Good Lord, Montana, how long does it take you to count your measly 300,000 votes??? Snap it up, you guys! Everybody's waiting....
It looks like Pawlenty squeaked out 4 more years in the governorship, but he's lost his entire support system: Secretary of State (thank God!), State Auditor, Secretary General, and both houses of the legislature. It was sort of overlooked in all the hoohah at the top of the ticket, but the DFL picked up NINETEEN seats in the Minnesota House, converting the slim Republican majority to a DFL majority of 85 to 49! Wow. I didn't even realize they were up for elections this year. There wasn't a peep out of my state legislators, both incumbents essentially running unopposed (okay, there may have been a token Republican on the ballot, but nobody paid much attention to that).
And Instant Runoff Voting actually WON in Minneapolis!!! How cool is that?!
It looks like Pawlenty squeaked out 4 more years in the governorship, but he's lost his entire support system: Secretary of State (thank God!), State Auditor, Secretary General, and both houses of the legislature. It was sort of overlooked in all the hoohah at the top of the ticket, but the DFL picked up NINETEEN seats in the Minnesota House, converting the slim Republican majority to a DFL majority of 85 to 49! Wow. I didn't even realize they were up for elections this year. There wasn't a peep out of my state legislators, both incumbents essentially running unopposed (okay, there may have been a token Republican on the ballot, but nobody paid much attention to that).
And Instant Runoff Voting actually WON in Minneapolis!!! How cool is that?!
