It has now been one whole day since the most important election decision I can remember – of course, I’m talking about prop. 62 here in Cali. The votes are in and it lost by 55/45… sigh. As I noted in this post, prop 62 had the chance to give Republicans a shot in the state. Unfortunately, not only did the Democrats see through the ploy, the California Republican party decided to throw itself on the sword of futility again, and also fought hard to defeat the measure (this is the party that stumbled all over themselves to nominate Bill Jones – who could not win in California if it was a single candidate race – rather than Rirodan even though Rirodan was beating Davis in the general opinion poles by double digits). Too bad.

I’d like to thank Michele and Alan for giving me the chance to blog this election. It has been great fun, and hopefully I will get to stay on and do some more writing for Command Post.

Trolling around the web today, I would say the following were my favorite quotes…

“The Democrats are never going to get America to come to them; they must go to America”

“Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear”

“If we have any chance of ending the sniping and bitterness that characterise the current political scene, it’s going to start with Republicans being gracious winners. If you have to indulge your schadenfreude, do it silently by lurking on Democratic websites and reading hair-tearing left-wing editorials, not by alienating people with whom we’d like to eventually build a better America.”

From the “Europeans don’t understand the U.S.” department…

“The families of people in the military will win it for Kerry.”

From the Rather…

“One would expect that the blogging machine which the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign has used for any number of purposes over their four years…” (Hey Karl, I never got my check ;-) )

From the “you know your conspiracy theory is in trouble when it requires you to believe: (1) that Florida provides the returns for races in Ohio (?), (2) you actually believe any county in Ohio would vote Green for president, but none in California, New York or Washington” department…

“Early returns from Florida showed the Green Party candidate leading President Bush and Sen. Kerry in two Ohio counties. They later appeared corrected, but raised eyebrows among liberal bloggers.”

“This auction is for whatever relevance Mr. Moore has seven days from now” (hat tip )

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