on our dark November day.
The Dems got wholloped last night. I know. I bet a conservative friend of mine a beer for every seat the Creeps get above a House majority. If the numbers hold up I owe him 20 beers (he bet me five that Whitman would win California). And that is in essence the point. . .
In California, the Democrats struck GOLD! More over the flip. . .
California was the Great Wall to the (I hate to say it, but I doubt I'm the first and I won't be the last) of the Tea Party wave! Brown won! Boxer won! Jerry McNerney and Jim Costa our most vulnerable Democrats in the House have won. We didn't lose one incumbent House member.
On the state side, we might have an all Democratic executive branch for the first time since Davis was recalled in 2003. Even our most vulnerable Democratic statewide candidate (Kamala Harris running in the open seat race for Attorney General) is leading right now. We have kept large marjorities in the Assembly and the Senate.
In the Props battle we have a mixed bag. Pot lost! Prop 19 is going down 53.8%-46.2%. That is underperforming Prop 8 by only less than 2%. (We are so close to aensible drug policy and equal rights for all our citizens) We are also losing another good prop and some bad ones are winning. But most importantly Prop 23 (the repeal of our global warming law) is going down to defeat by over 20 points!
So why is it that California resisted the national turn against the Democratic party? I don't know. But at 5:30 in the morning it's just nice to know that you are in one of the few places that is not spinning out of control.
At least, we all can take solace in the fact that this will be a short-lived majority. I expect to see the first signs of this Republican majority's self-destruction tomorrow. Let's watch the carnage.