Try this:
Applying Sharia law to ANYthing in this country, is patently Illegal!
Talk amongst yourselves. I'm verklempt at the very notion
On Nov 3, 2:53 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> you know anyone who thought dems would lose senate?
>
> I don't
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> On Nov 3, 2:31 pm, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Here's an interesting take.... Now, I'm not Democrat....
> > Independent... and there are quite a few dems I can do without....
> > (OreO, Dick the Blooming Asshole.... etc.) but the "strategy" seems
> > sound....you need a "majority" in office in order to get past the
> > gridlock.....Wonder if the voters will get the point and, if so, who
> > they'll vote for two years from now?.....
>
> >http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Election-2010/2010/1103/In-all-blue-Cali...
> > Los Angeles
> > Democrats did something right, at least, in California.
>
> > Skip to next paragraph Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of Calif., gestures as
> > she speaks to supporters after being projected the winner in her
> > Senate race against Carly Fiorina, Nov. 2, in Los Angeles.
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> > Mark J. Terrill/AP
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> > Enlarge
> > Related Stories
> > California backs Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer to reject rolling GOP tide
> > On historic night, Republicans sweep House Democrats from power Prop.
> > 19 in California: legalized marijuana goes up in smoke In the face of
> > a surging GOP elsewhere in the nation, California voters – who had
> > credible and interesting Republican candidates to choose from in two
> > big statewide races – elected to go with Democrats over Republicans,
> > long-time politicians over fresh faces, single-party control over
> > divided government, and, some would say, pragmatism over anger.
>
> > Do the state's election results hold lessons for the Democratic Party?
> > Or is that bucking of the national trend nothing more than California
> > being California – living in its own la-la land?
>
> > Not so, said some voters here. Their votes were born of experience,
> > including a gridlocked state government that is perennially unable to
> > grapple effectively with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
>
> > IN PICTURES: Election Day
>
> > "Elsewhere in America, people are angry and so they looked at the
> > president and voted the opposite party to make a statement," says
> > Megan Martinez, a 20-something emergency medical technician, at the
> > Sen. Barbara Boxer victory celebration. "Californians are angry but
> > took the time to really look at [Democratic gubernatorial candidate]
> > Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer versus [GOP competitors] Meg Whitman and
> > Carly Fiorina. They chose experience over fresh faces because we're in
> > very tough times. We already tried a fresh face with [Gov.] Arnold
> > Schwarzenegger, and that didn't work."
>
> > California election results mean that the state is one of the few to
> > remain all blue: Democrats will sit in the governor's office, hold
> > both US Senate seats, and control the state legislature. Even
> > Massachusetts has recently elected a Republican (Sen. Scott Brown in
> > January), and reliably blue New York isn't sure yet which party will
> > control the state Senate.
>
> > Analysts credit an intense burst of support by longtime Democratic
> > allies – plus the party's edge among the many racial and ethnic
> > subgroups here – for turning out the Democratic vote.
>
> > "Labor, the Democratic Party, and ethnic voters helped the Democrats
> > win and buck the national GOP tide," says Hal Dash, president and CEO
> > of Cerrell & Accociates, a Democratic strategy consulting firm.
>
> > California's relatively large shares of Latinos, Asians, Pacific
> > Islanders, and African-Americans tend to skew Democratic. That
> > contributes to the Democrats' advantage in voter registration: 44
> > percent of voters register as Democrats, compared with 31 percent as
> > Republicans and 25 percent as third-party or decline-to-state.
>
> > "Republicans in California just did not have the numbers or turnout
> > statewide to topple Boxer and beat Jerry Brown," says Mr. Dash.
> > "Democratic enthusiasm started slow but finished strong, and that was
> > another key."
>
> > California's results are not just an aberration and may be a
> > bellwether of what's to come for the rest of the nation, argues
> > political scientist Barbara O'Connor.
>
> > Page: 1 | 2
> > "The rest of the country will learn these things pre-2012," says Ms.
> > O'Connor, director of the Institute for Study of Politics and Media at
> > California State University, Sacramento. "Women won't just
> > [automatically] vote for women. Personal wealth won't buy elections,
> > and the tea party values on social issues don't appeal to our one-
> > quarter independents. [We] already had a likable outsider [in Governor
> > Schwarzenegger] and aren't willing to try it again."
>
> > Skip to next paragraph Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of Calif., gestures as
> > she speaks to supporters after being projected the winner in her
> > Senate race against Carly Fiorina, Nov. 2, in Los Angeles.
>
> > Mark J. Terrill/AP
>
> > Enlarge
> > Related Stories
> > California backs Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer to reject rolling GOP tide
> > On historic night, Republicans sweep House Democrats from power Prop.
> > 19 in California: legalized marijuana goes up in smoke Indeed, female
> > voters in California were instrumental in the Democratic wins on
> > Tuesday. Nationally, exit polls showed that women backed GOP
> > candidates by about 48 percent to 51 percent for Democrats, but in
> > California, 56 percent of women voters went for Mr. Brown and 40
> > percent for Ms. Whitman, says Lara Brown, a political scientist at
> > Villanova University. In the Senate race, 56 percent of women went for
> > Boxer and 39 percent for Ms. Fiorina. "In short, women in California
> > chose to support the Democratic Party and not the anti-incumbent
> > sentiment, which moved other women in other states away from the
> > Democrats," she says.
>
> > Governor-elect Brown has been in California politics for 40 years, and
> > Barbara Boxer has served in the Senate for 28. The GOP's Whitman, a
> > successful steward of eBay, was stung by her handling of revelations
> > that she had employed an undocumented maid. Whitman's avoidance of the
> > press and negative ads more than offset her perhaps-too-polished
> > responses in debates. She also managed to alienate the state's fastest-
> > growing voter bloc: Latinos.
>
> > "What this shows is that a hard line on immigration does not pay off
> > in places like California," says Angelica Salas, executive director of
> > the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. After
> > Proposition 187 – the 1994 citizens' initiative to deny education and
> > health services to illegal immigrants –Latino voters in California
> > became much more politically savvy. Calling Whitman hypocritical to be
> > urging crackdowns on illegal immigrants even as she employed one, Ms.
> > Salas says, Latinos "can smell a putrid idea when they hear one."
>
> > A recent study by the Public Policy Institute of California, she
> > notes, showed that 70 percent of illegal immigrants in the state live
> > with someone who is a legal permanent resident or a US citizen.
>
> > "When a politician chooses to attack an undocumented immigrant, entire
> > families feel attacked," she says.
>
> > With these two big wins in the state's highest-profile races,
> > Democrats should understand they must deliver or be thrown out, say
> > other Latino activists.
>
> > "They need to turn the economy around and provide real jobs.
> > Otherwise, the anger and frustration will only get larger and larger,
> > and Barack Obama will be in serious trouble when his reelection comes
> > up," says Randy Ertll, executive director of El Centro de Accion
> > Social, in Pasadena, Calif. "He will be blamed if the economy does not
> > recuperate and may in fact lose his reelection bid."- Hide quoted text -
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