so, there were no huge upsets in the election. snowe, baldacci, most incumbents back in office. (surprise? nah.)however, we did have two referendums on the ballot, TABOR and a constitutional ammendment. the results are, according to mainetoday.com:
| TABOR CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE | ||
| No | 270309 | 54.08% |
| Yes | 229502 | 45.92% |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT | ||
| Yes | 251910 | 54.03% |
| No | 214296 | 45.97% |
this is kind of interesting to me, as the anti-TABOR folks were pro-AMENDMENT. what does that mean? well, that the people of Maine didn't like that the TABOR people got their issue on the ballot through the lax-attitude of the court system, and we don't like TABOR, either. (for those who don't know, the court let them submit their signatures after the deadline because they had them all gathered and dated from before the deadline. they thought that it was in the spirit of initiative and referendum to allow them the flexibility to be on the ballot even though they missed the deadline.) and, it means that almost the same amount of people who don't like the strictness of TABOR don't like the looseness of the court. funny, but somehow logical. (we don't like that this got on our ballot through those loosey-goosey judges, and we don't want it anyway sort of thing.)
interesting, no?
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