Who are both elated that Indiana went blue for the first time since the 60s! Melissa as a resident just went nucking futs, while Lauren as an expat Hoosier has a great election response roundup.
More election response:
Kate Harding also had a great night at Grant Park in Chicago, and then came back down to reality.
Cara has a roundup post of the good, the bad and the ugly from the election results.
Gotta do the school band run. When I come back I’ll update with some Aussie reactions.
File under “bad” and “ugly” and “headdesk” and a raft of other things.
Ralph Nader
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/ownedby_shep_smith_no_less.php
My friend Phineas shot some video from withing the throbbing throng at Grant Park
http://flickr.com/photos/phineasx/3004250807/
I just got completely over-the-moon e-mail from a student of mine who’s been canvassing in Indiana for 3 weeks. It may just make up for the fact that his own home state went blue.
On the terrible, heartbreaking flipside, a gay student from California was just despondent.
Yes, what about prop 8? No-one seems to know what it will mean to the many people who have been married in CA. Friends are talking court cases and legal challenges…
Sorry, I didn’t do the blockquote right. It should have read (from an email from a friend on CA)..
“IF prop 8 passes and IS upheld in the courts, the way the proposition
was written it WILL invalidate any marriage except between a man and a
woman regardless of when it was performed.
HOWEVER
Lawsuits have already been filed against this prop as a violation of the
state constitution in regards to the equal protection and due process
clauses. Again however, according to the state constitution, the state
must enforce this proposition IF IT PASSES until such time as an
appellate court deems it unconstitutional. (And just for the lulz, this
would be decided by the same court that decided FOR gay marriage in the
first place.)
See? Clear as mud.
In other words, this whole mess, if it passes, is going to be bound up
in the courts for quite some time. “
Psst! I’m still in Indiana (unfortunately?). I live on the blue island between Indy and Gary on the map.
*Waves!*
On the lighter side
http://bullshit.tumblr.com/post/58208436/burger-options-we-can-believe-in
Hi Lauren! I obviously misread your post then – I thought you’d run off to some other locale. Even more congratulations then!