It looks like Wisconsin wasn't the only state where Republicans went crazy with power. This wrap from Rachel Maddow reviews a number of Democratic fixes from Republican overreaches state to state.
Time: ELECTION RESULTS: A Banner Night for Democrats as High-Profile Ballot Initiatives Go Blue
In a hard-won victory for Democrats and their labor-union allies, Ohioans decisively rejected the state’s collective-bargaining law on Tuesday night … The victory in Ohio was the highlight of a banner night for Democrats, a commodity which has been in short supply since the party’s shellacking in the 2010 midterm elections. In the evening’s other hotly anticipated ballot proposition, Mississippians shot down an anti-abortion constitutional amendment known as the “Personhood amendment,” which would have imposed the stiffest restrictions on abortion of any state.
Democrats also captured five of six statewide races in conservative Kentucky, including the battle for the governor’s mansion, where Democratic incumbent Steve Beshear coasted to a second term.
In Arizona, Russell Pearce, the architect of the state’s controversial immigration law, became the first sitting senator to be recalled in the state’s history. The party also won a ballot initiative that restored same-day voter registration in Maine, a provision that has historically favored Democrats.
Michael Sargeant, executive director of Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The lesson, according to Sargeant? “There is a price to pay for right-wing extremism and partisan overreach.”
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Bloomberg: New Jersey Republicans lost one seat in the state Legislature even after Governor Chris Christie campaigned for candidates and drew out-of-state donations.
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