1. Voters decisively defeated Ohio's anti-union law at the polls today, delivering a major defeat to the Republican governor.
2. Voters by 55% defeated Mississippi's "personhood" amendment to the state constitution that would have defined a person to include "every human being from the moment of fertilization." It would have effectively outlawed any abortions for any reason, even to save the life of the mother, as well as possibly some forms of contraception.
3. The architect of Arizona draconian immigration law was defeated in a special recall election today.
4. Texas' redistricting plan was rejected by the courts because it would discriminate against minorities. The court will now draw up a temporary plan, which will be in effect for the 2012 election and will protect minority representation. That should be good for Democrats.
5. Kentucky's Democratic governor easily won re-election in a very red state.
6. A conservative-leaning panel of judges from the U. S. Appeals Court of D. C. upheld the constitutionality of the Obama health care reform.
7. I don't know if he meant this to sound as derisive of fellow Republican politicians as it sounds, but today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said about his party's presidential candidates and their foreign policy positions (or lack thereof):
"I think we're not organized in our thoughts yet. I'm going to help. I'm writing an article about how to have an organized thought."Uhh. Wow !! " . . . how to have an organized thought"???
Lindsey has noticed, huh? With friends like this . . .
8. An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier passed through the moon's orbital field at 6:28 pm but missed hitting the earth by 202,000 miles.
It was a very good day.
Ralph
The Ohio vote on the anti-union law was 61% to 39%, and it has spurred on the efforts of Democrats and labor leaders to petition for a recall vote against the governor, who fought so hard for this anti-union law.
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