{"id":185009,"date":"2011-11-08T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/08\/its-a-good-election-night\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T04:51:00","slug":"its-a-good-election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/08\/its-a-good-election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Good Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But  <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/11\/08\/8708589-big-win-for-democrats-in-ohio-and-an-abortion-surprise-in-mississippi\">not a great one<\/a>, with Ohio overturning Governor John Kasich&#8217;s union busting bill, while in Mississippi, they defeated the &#8220;fetal personhood&#8221; referendum, and Maine defeated the elimination of same day voter registration by the &#8216;Phants.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, it&#8217;s likely that Virginia&#8217;s state Senate will flip to the &#8216;Phants, (actually a 20-20 tie, but the Lt. Gov, who breaks ties is a Republican) with the pivotal seat having the Republican leading by 86 votes, and Mississippi approved <strike>a poll tax<\/strike> strict photo ID requirements.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that the <a href=\"http:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/pearce-recalled-by-mesa-voters\/article_57103692-0a88-11e1-9a33-001cc4c03286.html\">recall of \u00fcber wingnut, and state senate leader, Steve Pearce in Arizona<\/a>, made famous as the sponsor of Arizona&#8217;s &#8220;Papers Please&#8221; law, does make me chuckle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not a great one, with Ohio overturning Governor John Kasich&#8217;s union busting bill, while in Mississippi, they defeated the &#8220;fetal personhood&#8221; referendum, and Maine defeated the elimination of same day voter registration by the &#8216;Phants. On the other side, it&#8217;s likely that Virginia&#8217;s state Senate will flip to the &#8216;Phants, (actually a 20-20 tie, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}