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.