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Indiana gubernatorial victor Republican Mike Pence speaks to supporters with his family at his side on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Pence defeated Democrat John Gregg and Libertarian Rupert Boneham.
McCrory, who cast himself as a pragmatic centrist, defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, to replace the Perdue whose administration was sullied by an investigation that led to charges against her former campaign aides.
Becoming the first Republican governor in North Carolina in 20 years, Pat McCrory thanks his supporters.
It took until noon on Wednesday before the outcome of race in Montana was determined. Democrat Steve Bullock, the state's attorney general defeated rival Rick Hill, a Republican who formerly served in the House. With 83 percent of the vote counted, Bullock had 49 percent compared to Hill's 47 percent.
Just weeks before voting day, a legal battle erupted over a $500,000 donation to Hill from the Republican Governors Association, and a judge's order barring him from using it.
The donation came after a federal judge ruled that Montana’s campaign contribution limits were unconstitutionally low on Oct. 3, and before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that ruling on Oct. 9, restoring the limits pending appeal.
The legal distraction may have tipped the balance towards Bullock.
Democrat Margaret "Maggie" Hassan clinched the governorship in New Hampshire Tuesday in a hard-fought race, retaining the seat for her party. It was one seat that Republicans had hoped to add to their state house seats.
Cheryl Senter / AP file
Democrat Maggie Hassan is shown addressing supporters in Manchester, N.H. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
Hassan defeated Republican Ovide Lamontagne by a greater margin that pundits predicted in a race dominated by taxes and social issues, for the seat of Gov. John Lynch, a retiring Democrat.
Both Hassan and Lamontagne's campaigns attempted to portray their competitors as ideological extremists on social issues including abortion and same sex marriage, but both had to court the independent voters who account for 39 percent of the electorate in that state, according to the Union Leader.
Hassan, who is pro-choice and supports same sex marriage, received millions of dollars worth of help in attacking her rival from groups such as EMILY's List, Planned Parenthood Action and NARAL, the Leader reported. Polls indicated the attacks created, or widened, a significant gender gap between the two candidates, according to the report.
Six incumbent governors were projected winners, including two Republicans and four Democrats: Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) of North Dakota, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R), Gov. Jack Markell (D) of Delaware, Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) of Vermont, and Gov. Jay Nixon (D) of Missouri. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) also retained his seat. Tomblin became governor in 2010 after then-Gov. Joe Manchin resigned. He defeated coal businessman William "Bill" Maloney.
Nail-biters in Montana, Washington
Washington state was the only gubernatorial race too close to call as of noon on Wednesday.
In Washington, the race was neck-and-neck heading into the final stretch between former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, a Republican, and former Rep. Jay Inslee, the Democrat.
Although Washington voters had not elected a Republican governor since 1980, the seat being vacated by retiring Gov. Christine Gregoire is hotly contested, and witnessed a large influx of outside money.
According to the Seattle Times, the race was expected to cost more than $46 million, with the single biggest share of spending coming from out-of-state interest groups.
Both candidates put job creation at the top of their to-do lists.
Inslee touted his jobs-creation program based on green energy technology, was pro-choice and favored Obama’s health care plan.
McKenna ran on creating jobs by cutting red tape and taxes for the state’s business owners.
Republicans controlled 29 governorships going into Tuesday's elections, with Democrats holding 20 and an independent as governor in one — Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. If the GOP wins in Washington, the party would be in charge of 31 state houses.
Kate Hansen, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Governors Association, acknowledged that this is a tough year for Democrats, since they had more seats to defend.
"We're pleased with the shape of the more competitive tossup races going into the homestretch — because we have excellent candidates focused on creating jobs and expanding opportunity, and we've made smart and early investments throughout the year," Hansen said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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We shall overcome...it's important to control state governments, just look at what those GOP states did in enacting voter ID laws intended to disenfranchise minority voters...fortunately, most such laws have been put on hold by courts. But many such laws will go into effect after the election 2012, still to hurt minority voters.
Fired up... Ready to go... F O R W A R D > > > > > > > > >
Yeah, those GOP guys are real idiots asking people who actually want the right to vote to be "forced" to show identification to confirm who they are. This is unfair!
Pigotry and BO 2012, I read a lot of political news, try to read the 'Vine, if there are fewer than 100 comments (more than that is useless).
My question is how the hell are the two of you, or how do you, manage to get on so many threads. Too much time on your hands?
Jackieboy,
I feel your pain. You need a very fast connection and a lot of memory. The problem is all the dumb ads MSNBC intersperses between comments. An active discussion will take forever to load because of this. The "targeted" ads make it worse too because they are trying to match up cookies before they load. And as they load, the page jumps around. I wish they would fix this, they could if they wanted to. Just cap the number of ads in a discussion. It's not like any of us really reads these anyway.
1NewDay,
All these things are easy to get around, I use Firefox as my browser, in the preferences you can set the browser to block popups without stopping the page from refreshing, you can also set the browser to delete all cookies when you close the browser(you will lose the memory of where you have already been), and above all respond to no ads at all and don't scroll over the green underlined words. Windows explorer is a favorite and easy target for hackers and malware because of the many bad chains of code that Microsoft leaves in the software. Google Chrome is highly invasive and keeps a ton of info on you in your computer for easy access, I liked chrome because of its speed but uninstalled it after Google's new privacy policy's were announced. After removing it I found 150+ megabytes of info stored by chrome on my hard drive. I use windoze on my laptop and Linux on my desktop, while they are very similar in processor power and ram, Linux is at least twice as fast as windoze.
Now if only I could type fast :)
Anti,
Yeah, maybe it is worth trying again. I used it long ago but got away from it. Early on there wasn't many add-ins available but it looks like that has changed quite a bit now.
As for Chrome, I usually don't use it on my laptop, but do on my Android tablet. Looks like Firefox is available for Android too. Wish there was more tablet version Android apps, but they're coming slowly. Android is the way to go on smartphones and although the apps work on tablets, many aren't really optimized for tablets yet. Swore I'd never have a tablet, but Oh Well, it is nice for a lot of stuff and is convenient when you're lounging around on the Lazy Boy. Most folks in my age bracket think a tablet is something you take for a headache. Went that route, as smartphones didn't fit my old eyes very well and I tend to think of a phone as a device for talking to people. With data and voice being separate, you can burn a lot of cash too. I tend to prefer to use a phone as for voice only and use a pre-paid and only spend $100 or so annually. Just can't stand "icrap". Wish Android had a Vine app, it's a natural for tablets. Looked at the new Windows tablets which sound good on the surface, but I didn't see it as being all that hot. And there's a lot to be said about an open source OS.
I understand what you're saying about Chrome and I've got mixed feelings. Chrome has a lot of nice features and some of those rely on all the data storage. I tend to trust Google a bit more than say Facebook, who is literally criminal they way they use data. Won't touch that! Google has a pretty good record of responding to security concerns and changing policies. The nice thing about Google is they have the whole package and it ties together seamlessly.
Like you say IE is the "standard" that sees a lot of attacks. To some extent it's just about what you are used to. Really hate those damn Bing links! It's a joke too because they are almost never even relevant. Have to be careful about where your cursor is at. I suppose I got hooked on IE because it's always been the corporate IT standard. Same goes for MS in general and I use all the office products all the time. When you use something all the time you get used to it. But these days I freelance so I suppose I can use anything I want on my machines. I refuse to let the corporate IT guys touch my hardware and just stay off their networks. most big guys won't allow any connections with anything but windows machines that they have admin on or maybe a Blackberry for poratble devices. Screw Blackberry, that's soon to be dead. I'm in a position where I can dictate my terms and there's ways to get the info I need without direct access to their networks. Plus I see work and play as two distinctly different things.
Anyway, I may give firefox another try. The Vine is a pain on IE with big discussions. They could fix that if they wanted to. Early on they were pretty responsive to users, but it doesn't seem that way anymore.
1NewDay
If you have a spare machine you should try Linux, it's free, I use the Ubuntu version, just dont get the latest LTS(long term support) 64 bit version, the interface is weird, I use it mostly for internet, it handles most if not all the Ms Office files using Oracle, I've used it for music and just played around on it. It seems everything is there and there are tons of all types of software available and most of it is free. Like you said its what your used to. If I do anything that I need security I hard wire my laptop and I am sure that it fairly secure.
I use IE if its not my machine and that's what's there, I used chrome on both Windows and Linux, it is faster than Firefox, but I still prefer Firefox, and it is the native browser in Linux.
My phone is just that a phone, I also use it for text, but that's it. I know people that I dont think could function if they lost their Iphone's, my brother loves his Iphone, I cant stand the damn thing.
ehh...I go to sleep still wealthy.....I will be forced to fire 1/4 of my workforce come 2014 (I will make sure they are democrats....democrats like entitlements).....sleep tight....
See ya!
and please take Donald Trump with you!
LOL, yeah right. I am sure you are a successful business man but still have time to come cry on newsvine. Go back to your trailer and cry into your food stamp bought Mountain Dew.
I'll sleep very well, thank you. Firing workers based on political affiliation would probably get you some nice court time, and would also keep your lawyers busily draining your bank account. But then, that would presume you actually are wealthy, and employ someone other than your dog, and we know how wrong that would be. So sit back in your recliner, pop another Iron City beer, and watch Faux News on your 19-inch black and white TV in the comfort of your double-wide, and wait for the next tornado to hit your trailer park.
How childish, "If I can't get my way I'll take my ball and go home!"
Go, please!!! We don't need you here. Anybody who would choose employees based on their politics needs to spend the next few years in court burning your profits on legal fees. The idiots who put out the "threatening" letters to employees are going to have some grief coming. The next person to get terminated has a very solid case against you. Hope they become the new owners. This could easily become "the next big thing" for the trial lawyer community.
HopeIsGone
Why don't you give us the name and address of your business, so your democratic employees can start looking for a good employer, and not the tyrannical employer you profess to be.
I too my friend will go to sleep wealthy. Nor do I see having to fire anyone at my practice anytime soon. I'm sorry to hear your wealth is running so thin you'll be forced to fire a 1/4 of your work force. Oh well at least you won't have to pay our wonderful country anymore taxes. While I, on the other hand will continue to amass wealth and have no problem throwing a little more in the pot. I have plenty.....God Bless America
Yes, keep stealing from medicare while the GOP crumbles
Medicare should be pretty safe. The problem will become stealing from Medicaid. The Court has said that states can reject the deal in Obama Care and this will hurt a lot of people in states like Indiana with a win by that idiot Pence.
Indiana is a good example of how screwed up the Republicans are. When you look at any of these red state results maps what you see is that in cities and populated areas where the demographics are closer to the national average, those districts are heavily weight blue. But get away form the cities and get into the gold ol' boy districts that are mostly dominated by white rednecks, and that bright red stands out.
The modern metropolitan areas of the country are highly weighted as Democratic. But it is an entirely different country when you move out from the cities. Overall, there is a huge urban/rural divide. But even then the majorities only outweigh the minorities by around 5-10%. That will change too over time. The country wide demographic are headed for a huge change and eventually even the rural districts will will shift too over time. It will only shift faster when under Governors like Pence, many people in those districts will get denied benefits the rest of the country is getting.
Good luck Indiana, this too wil pass. But you'll be suffering in the short term.
Now that Mike Pence is Governor-elect of Indiana, how long will it be before he starts his campaign to be POTUS?
way to vote IN, Mike Pence is a good guy!!
If everyone that voted for Rupert would have voted for John Gregg, Gregg would have won. Many thought this would be a landslide for Pence, but it was far from a landslide. Not unexpected, but closer than I thought it would be.
A Hoosier that did not vote for Pence.
Congratulations Gov. Pence. I think we are on an upward swing now. We picked up another good, honest person when Tim Harmon won. At least I had some good thoughts about this election. M.correl
Fool Me Once shame on you....Fool me TWICE, shame on me...
Best is yet to come, must mean our POS president is going to resign. No he will be impeached for lying about killing four americans.
What a crock of crap relecting this idiot. Hard to believe there is actually 50% of the voters in this country getting government handouts. Why else would anybody vote for this clown?