It’s nice to see that, here in Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius was re-elected. Even better, democrat Paul Morrison beat incumbent Phill Kline. Kline has long been on a religious crusade with a pretty dirty campaign. Shortly before the election, Kline announced that his medical-record subpoena campaign was paying off. This was then followed by O’Reilly claiming to have seen the medical records.

Overall, we Dems gained the House majority. Foley and DeLay’s seat both went to Democrats. As of right now, the Senate is tied at 49 seats, with two races still too close to call. On the bright side, both races have the Democrat challenger slightly in the lead. Both seats will need to go to Dems, otherwise any votes along party lines will be broken by Cheney (or Lieberman…lol).

Back in Wichita, the expected sore losers are being seen.

“Throughout the day we have witnessed the most obscene and wanton displays of voter supression and voter intimidation of election officials in the history of Sedgwick County elections,” said Nancey Harrington of the Sedgwick County Republican Party.

“Democratic poll workers have engaged in voter intimidation by demanding the personal information of voters and intimidation of elected officials,” continued the Republicans.

Poll workers monitoring the election are allowed to ask for the name and address of those voting in a gesture targeting fairness. In the crowded and noisy election hall of a upper-middle class district, the names and addresses weren’t always heard so they would ask the election official to repeat the information for their records. Nothing else is allowed to be said or done by the monitors. But people called to the county and complained that, “someone was recording my personal information!” Instead of telling the callers that this is allowed, Republican officials in the county jumped on the chance to raise hell.

Karma can be sweet.

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