It's not that I didn't know what I was getting into, politically speaking, when I moved to Florida. My mother had mentioned many times how she couldn't understand how people who were otherwise so pleasant were so very different from her, politically. This has only become more true in the last decade, and it really is unnerving to live here sometimes. One can feel very alone, a blue dot in such a red state.
However, the local paper this morning listed all the vote totals for Florida, and while it doesn't change the end result at all, it made me feel just slightly better about living here.
Yes, he got over six million votes, but she got over four and three-quarter million! That is not nothing.
And one of those is me.
At this point, I'm just so grateful that Josh Stein won the governor's election here otherwise...I shudder to think just how bad it would be between him and the felon.
ReplyDeleteEvery victory counts!
DeleteThat is a decent vote total for Harris in Florida, surprisingly good. I'm still despondent and scared though. :(
ReplyDeleteOh, I very much am too. I almost can't think straight about it yet. But still, it's a little something.
DeleteI'm looking for silver linings wherever I can find them right now. SIGH.
ReplyDeleteSame!
DeleteI am all for silver linings, however tiny.
ReplyDeleteEven a sliver of good news helps my mood right now.
DeleteSending you a great big hug xoxo
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteThere are some silver linings here in WI, too. Tammy Baldwin won a Senate seat (I have so many questions about how Trump won overwhelmingly, but the Dem Senator won) and it looks like gerrymandering that has been in place for decades here has been busted since Dems took some state seats and now the Republicans don't have a supermajority anymore.
ReplyDeleteI read that a lot of Trump voters didn't fill out the whole ballot, which is an interesting thought. Yay for busted gerrymandering!
DeleteI was stunned at how high the Republican vote was for Adam Schiff's appointment; Garvey is our Tommy Tuberville-wannabe. So glad Schiff won. The thing is, California used to be a staunch Republican state--until the R governor decided to ride anti-immigrant fervor into the White House not long after we moved here and denied all medical care or schooling or driver's licenses to them. Great, now the driver who hits you will be uininsured, their kids won't have anything to do while they're at work so their bored teens will break into houses, and the hospitals are supposed to let treatable people die in their lobbies? The Republicans were thrown out on their rears and the Democrats have run the state ever since.
ReplyDeleteMay that be what happens nationally. Starting with the midterms.
That IS a silver lining.
ReplyDeleteYour abortion initiative would have passed, too, if it weren't for the ridiculous 60% majority requirement. Ohio's corrupt/republican legislature tried that one, but it was a loser out of the gate.
Now, however, who knows? Every office went red here. It's a supermajority, and gerrymandering is rampant. Sigh.
I know, that requirement on the abortion thing bugs me. Why is a majority not enough?
DeleteWow indeed! I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to look at any details, still. So this is the first time I'm seeing this. You're right- it's not nothing. We have to cling on to the fact that there ARE like-minded people here, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI am clinging to that!
DeleteUff, living in a red state must be so hard. I am aware I am in a bubble here in my blue county in my blue state.
ReplyDeleteMassachusetts was easier to live in, politically, but I knew what I was getting into. Still feels weird, sometimes, though.
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