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My two cents on the election

By apalazzo on November 9, 2006.

... while I'm waiting for our daily lunch caravan to assemble. My 10 sec analysis:

- A partial change in governance will be good for the country. Hopefully funding will increase for education and science.

- Look at these maps of changes in the house and senate, and they say that the North East doesn't yield any political strength anymore. HA! This part of the country has withdrawn it's remaining support for the GOP. (And Deval Patrick won too, although that wasn't a surprise.)

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- I can't beleive that Massachusetts voted against the proposition to extend liquor licenses to supermarkets. (The word on the street is that voters were angry that the proposition would have also allowed gas stations to sell liquor).

- And yes, Missouri voted for stem cell research!

OK time for lunch.

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