A Quick Little Note About the Election

While it is an historic day and one that I am so glad to see, there is a much smaller, but equally astounding, at least in my eyes, feat that was accomplished in one of the corners of America.

New Hampshire, a typically right-leaning libretarian state, re-elected a Democrat as Governer, sent two Democratic Representatives to the House, and replaced a long-tenured Republican Senator with a Democrat. New Hampshire also voted decidedly for Obama (not as big of a deal, the state went to Kerry in '04). In a place that saw Republicans dominate it's State Legislature for 110 years, only to swing to a Democratic majority in 2006; in a state that swooned over John McCain at the mere mention of his name (especially in 2000); in a place where government is often seen as a necessary evil and any sort of divergence from the tried-and-true as scary; the Democracts swept.

Is this a sign of the mentality of New Hampshirites are changing? Perhaps. In my own personal opinion, which may not mean much to anyone except myself, my mom and my girlfriend, it is a sign of how much ultra-conservative, me-first leadership has disparaged a country and it's citizens. This election is a wake-up call to the far right: Your way doesn't work.