I'll write more about the dire results of the mid-term selections later, but for now i'll just briefly mention the couple of results that did manage to put a smile on my face. Both of them from California. In the Senatorial campaign Carly Failurina lost by 10 percentage points to Barbara Boxer (one of the few liberals left in that chamber) after having spent many millions of her own cash to fund her increasingly shrill and bitchy ads. That was good fun to watch, because no matter how hard the presstitiutes tried to spin things in her favour she was never really in it at all.
But the best result of the evening had to be the total failure of the former head of E-Bay to buy her way into the Governor's mansion in Sacramento. Some estimates have her spending $141 million of her own money to wind up with 13% less of the vote than her competitor. That equates to roughly $9 for each registered voter in the Golden State (and closer to $50 for each vote she actually did get). She may have fared better if she had just bought every voter in the state a nice lunch with that money, because spending it on hateful, angry and bitter radio, print and tv ads didn't appear to work...Too bad, so sad...
Unfortunately across the rest of the nation money did do the talking, and it was democracy that did the walking..right into the buzzsaw..more on that anon...
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