Good, more or less.
We deserve a much better leader than either of these fuckers, but given that we're stuck with these two, I'm glad Obama got firmly re-elected.

Goldman wins both ways as always, though it appears that Goldman would have been slightly happier with Vulture. Doesn't matter. Obama still won't do anything about the banksters. They will continue to smash the world and steal trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions.

Also good that the defeat was resounding. Florida won't matter, and all those idiotic polling-place problems won't matter. Al Sharpton won't be able to poison the country with his fucking Satanic bitching, and the Rs won't be able to play 'We Wuz Robbed' as Gore did after 2000. Instead, the Rs could try thinking for once, could figure out a way to become a real opposition party, could find a halfway competent candidate. Of course they won't. They'll pick the wrong way and the wrong candidate. They'll out-green and out-fag and out-outsource and out-WallStreet the Dems. But who knows? Maybe after a few dozen more resounding defeats they'll finally figure out what it means to have two parties. Somewhere around 2312 AD.

One absolutely good thing nationally: Elizabeth Warren. If she doesn't get absorbed into the miasmal swamp of the Senate, she could stir up some real trouble for the banksters.

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Locally, also more or less good. For Wash gov, Inslee beat Tinkerbell McKenna. Both of these dudes are weak and ineffectual, but Tink is evil.

Propositions matter a whole lot more than any candidate. Among those, only one result will make a real positive difference: Prop 502 legalizing pot has passed solidly, with support in all parts of Wash. The only real opposition came from the small "medical" marijuana businesses, who are making money from the current bizarre "medical" law. Those folks may have to find another line of business, but overall it's better to have a clean break from Prohibition, better to get rid of hypocrisy.

Two other props are still too close to call: 74 to approve fag "marriage", and 1240 to approve charter schools. Both are narrowly leading. 74 will help to destroy civilization in the long run but won't make any immediate practical difference. Charter schools will be immediately positive if approved.
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