Ponderings of a Scientist

This is the best Wednesday after the first Monday of November, in years!  Go democrats.  Both U.S. House of Representative seats held by Republicans in NH went to the Democrats (Yeah Shea Porter), the entire NH Senate went Democratic, the U.S. House is now Democratic, the majority of U.S. governors are not dems, and the list goes on!

Yeah for the minorities!  Deval Patrick, the first MA African-American Governor (and the best candidate) and Nancy Polosi (sp) the first female Speaker of the House!

The only annoying thing:  NH has me registered as Undecided (their name for Independents).  Im definitely independent, but I don’t like to think of it as undecided:

• I’m very much decided that I’m not either a Democrat or a Republican
• I’m very much decided that my views are not represented by any party
• I’m very much decided that I vote for individuals based on their values, not based on their party affliation (disclaimor - I voted all democrat yesterday, based on values, not on party)

The way I see it, we have a fair chance of things now improving with the political landscape on the U.S.  Of course, nothing we truly improving until we have campaign finance reform and no longer allow big business lobbying to own our politicians.