The Score

Gleaned from this morning's news. Not a bad set of outcomes, all in all. Unfortunate about the Emergency Manager law, but maybe the legislature will pass a new, more idiot-proof version now.

Topic	Outcome	Pos/Neg
National Elections
Presidential Election	Democrat: Obama	Positive
15th Congressional District	Democrat: Dingell	Positive
US Senator	Democrat; Stabenow	Positive
State and Local Elections
53rd District MI	Democrat: Driskell	Positive
52nd District MI	Democrat: Irwin	Positive
Ann Arbor Mayor	Democrat: Hieftje	Positive
State Supreme Court Justices	Bridget McCormack Stephen Markman Brian Zahra	Positive Negative Negative
State and Local Proposals
Prop 1: Emergency Manager Law	Failed	Negative
Prop 2: Prevent Anti-Union Legislation	Failed	Negative
Prop 3: Renewable Energy Standard	Failed	Positive
Prop 4: Home Health Care Union	Failed	Positive
Prop 5: Tax Increase Supermajority	Failed	Positive
Prop 6: Bridge and Tunnel Measure	Failed	Positive
Prop: C Ann Arbor Library Reconstruction	Failed	Positive
Prop: B Ann Arbor Public Art Funding	Failed	Negative
Prop: A Ann Arbor Parks Millage	Passed	Positive

Note that the Mayor staved off a challenge from an independent candidate, Albert Howard, narrowly defeating him by a margin of only 30,000 or so votes.

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Update: 2012 11 07: Romney can at least claim that he swept the looney vote. Donald Trump, Ted Nugent, and the guy they just arrested for apparently being the I-96 Freeway Shooter were all big fans of the Mittster, and they all exhibited psychopathia twitteralus.  Congratulations to the GOP for having so accurately targeted its core supporters.

McLuggage Wins in Landslide

In an independent poll conducted by the Wood-Charles News Service, Wood-Charles Founder, financial genius, political expert, and Certified Scrum Master J. Francis McLuggage is likely to win tomorrow's election by a margin of 70+ percentage points. Both the Romney and Obama campaigns conceded defeat, and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann were arrested outside a Reno, Nevada saloon, duking it out over who would have McLuggage's baby.

At a mass rally, McLuggage told an audience of over 32 million screaming, heavily armed supporters that the announcement was "totally accurate, to the extent that polls are capable of being totally accurate," and fiercely denied that it was just a ploy to see how many page views his blog would generate by carefully tagging this message with election-related keywords.

Obama landslide predicted

Ross Perot endorses Romney.

I never thought I'd say it

Mitt Romney and I agree on something. "Don't expect tax cuts," he says.

I've said it myself.  Emphatically. Over and over again. It doesn't matter who you vote for, who gets elected, or what else happens: do not expect to pay less in taxes.  Can't happen. An official or an economist or a candidate who says it can is a) lying, b) ignorant, or c) insane.

And again, I find myself in the unlikely position of agreeing with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He called for a "new world order" or something like that when, for reasons that are not at all clear to me, he was again allowed to address the UN.  I don't think we're on the same page, Mahmoud and me, about the details of this here new order, but I sure agree we need one.

Apparently, so does the supreme leader of Iran (which is not Mr. Ahmadinejad - it's the Grand Ayatollah  Youso Ali Hosseini Khamenei.) While the President was out of town, eating noodles at one of David Chang's places, most likely, the supremo had the President's press secretary arrested for saying things he didn't like. (Caution: that's a link to Haaretz, easily one of the most annoying news sites on the web. You were warned.)

Anyway, it's been a good day for saying stupid things in public, and I thought I should join in.