[377] in libertarians
Re: Election results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Wed Nov 9 13:56:30 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 94 13:52:19 -0500
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU, theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca
Mostly for those who didn't hear otherwise:
MA Election Results (first info I have):
Candidates: All Incumbents won. Weld won by like 72% to 28%. One
race was close (Torkildson-R north shore area) but he won. Kennedy
beat Romney 59% to 41%. Either the vote totals of third parties were
not counted in these races, or the LP did not get 1% in them. The
other (gettable?) statewide races have winners but no poll data I've seen.
Ballot Questions: 1 - NO (a win on campaign finance), 2 - Yes (a loss on
seat belts 60-40, vote on 1 was also 60-40), 3 - NO (a loss on the most
confusing question ever, PIRG gets to keep their negative check-off scam
by 51-49 as of this morning), 4 - YES!! (TERM LIMITS wins a squeaker
51 -49, TL's won in 8 of the 9 states they were proposed in total is now
up to 23 or 24 states), 5 - YES (close but I think something like 53-47,
and the Blue Laws are no more!), 6- NO!! (a 70-30 SLAUGHTER of the
grad tax, its forth loss in as many attempts, the look on Jim Braude's
face was priceless, poor old Tax Equity Alliance, BIG win for Barbara
Anderson and CLT), 7- NO!! (repeat of 6), 8 - YES!! (another win for
our side, taxes from gas must go to roads, the beginning of fee for
service government?), 9 - YES!! (another SQUEAKER, but as of this morning
it won 51-49 to outlaw rent control, now come the law suits from
Cambridge etc. :( Still we won :)
I saw in the Globe that Steve Winter easily got permanent ballot status
for NH in the governors race (four or five percent). Several other
big races had LP candidates pulling in 2-4 percent. I have no info
on the NH statehouse races, though we're guaranteed at least 1. Mostly
I was just happy to see a Libertarian mentioned in the morning election
wrap-up. NH LP is on the move in the right direction.
Last check on the major races shows tweedle dee in an all out rout of
tweedle dum. The R's picked up 9 senate seats (8 plus one guy just
switched this morning from D to R) for a 53-47 take over. The House
was a projected 49-52 seat R takeover, for something like 228 to 206
GOP take over. Cuomo died a pleasurable death in NY Governor's race.
Ann "who's laughing now" Richards met her doom as well in Texas, to
George "looks just like dad, hope he doesn't govern that way" Bush Jr.
The overall governorships are now at 29-21 in favor of the GOP. Clinton
is to speak at 2:30 today, my bet is he aged at least 4 years last night.
Congratulations to everyone who helped at MIT. We won on 7 out of 9
ballot questions, loosing IMHO, the least important of the two (seat
belts and the Pirg check off). Some of these races were VERY tight.
We made a difference I'm sure!! Will post more when I get it.
Vernon
