I [Heart] New York

Hurrah for independent-minded New Yorkers who very quietly stuck their collective fist up the rectal compartment of His Highness, Mayor Bloomberg, Tuesday—and not in a good way. Bloomberg’s humiliating 5-point victory over a non-entity at the cost of $90 million (or an estimated $35,000 per hour) from his own absurdly stuffed pockets will surely set a different tone to his illegitimate third term.

I have to say it feels great to live in a place where people weren’t completely browbeaten into submission by Bloomberg’s non-stop TV ads and his dozen glossy propaganda sheets in their mailboxes every week, but rather expressed their distaste for the arrogance of rewriting the election rules to suit himself—even while recognizing that his mayoral performance has not been dreadful.

My anecdotal impression is that rigging the third term was simply unforgivable to a large bloc of voters, and all the cash on Wall Street wasn’t going to change their minds.

New Jersey: so a filthy rich Goldman Sachs alumnus didn’t manage to buy another term as governor? Who cares? Loyal Democrats maybe.

Maine: at 11 EST it looks like the repealers of gay marriage will eke out a victory. That’s too bad, but the tide has long since turned against their heel-digging. If half the crusty old Maine yankees think it’s okay to be queer, it’s just a matter of time.

Upstate New York: I wish I didn’t have to go to bed so I could relish the possible defeat of the teabagger-carpetbagger in Watertown, who reminds me of the nasty Baptist preachers’ kids I grew up with. A pity because it might undercut the lovely momentum of the Republican intranecine war.