Post-Election Kudos, Fails & 8 Hours of CNN

As a parent would say, "...and what have you learned from this?"

Well, I spent the night with Anderson Cooper. (Okay, calm down,
guys and girls--I'm really at Chuck's.) But he was my host for no
fewer than eight hours (sad, right?) of election night coverage--
and the silver fox did a job most worthy of the son of Gloria
Vanderbilt. Through him, Wolf Blitzer's stuttering and the comical
appearance of former Gov.Eliot "Hot Pants" Spitzer, I reaffirmed
that CNN is my preferred network and online election source. Yay.

KUDOS: Nevada voters finally recognized that Sharron Angle
absorbs comprehension of the issues like a pretzel.
Mr. Reid goes back to Washington.

FAIL: Arizona elects Ben Quayle (R)--son of former VP and
poor speller Dan Quayle to Congress. Really?

KUDOS: Big loser Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) gives the most gracious
concession speech ever, especially considering that she
is a two-term Senator. Here's to class.

FAIL: The morons at the NRA for placing an initiative on ballots
called the "Right To Hunt" in AZ, AR, SC and TN. (It passed
in all but Arizona.)

KUDOS: The people of Colorado for not seeing the need to "Define
Personhood" in their Constitution.

FAIL: The voters of my native Kentucky for electing Rand Paul--
and, to be fair, an equally big FAIL to Jack Conway's shitty
race that made me ashamed to be a supporter.

KUDOS: To Delaware voters who have sense: thank you for not
electing non-sensical Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell.

FAIL: Meg Whitman, the CEO who spent $150 million of her
own money--and lost. Epic. Fail.

KUDOS: The "We're More Progressive Than You Might Think" city
of Lexington, Kentucky who turned a new page in politics
by firmly electing the openly gay Jim Gray as Mayor.

FAIL: Don't Ask, Don't Tell. With the House and Senate fighting
and a weakened president, it's back to the ol' drawing
board for a legislative repeal.

KUDOS: To CNN's Election Center for having really cool maps,
graphs, polls and all sorts of nerdy things.

WTF?: The citizens of Rhode Island for 1) having a measure asking
voters if they want to change the state's official name from
"State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" to just
"Rhode Island" 2) 78% of voters saying NO?! You want that
long ass name? Realllly? So much for brevity.


Live from in front of the big screen in the Man Cave, it's your political
correspondent, Matt Spencer, signing off and urging you to remember,
in the words of Lenny Kravitz, that "It Ain't Over Til It's Over."