moment. in ohio, the most high-profile race in the country, the bid to recall the union-stripping law, it lost by 22 points with an blowout. all those polls predicting a high margin of victory, those impossible margin of victory policy turned out to be exactly accurate. that particular result last night doesn t just have reverberations for ohio. you ll hear about the sb-5 vote in ohio, this vote against john kasich last night, you ll hear about this for an entire year in republican politics, particularly in republican presidential politics. back in june, you may remember that republican front-runner mitt romney came out in support of john kasich s union-stripping law in ohio. mr. romney saying at the time, i stand with john kasich. then just a couple of weeks before the big vote on john kasich s union-stripping law, mr. romney scheduled a campaign event, an event at a phone bank in ohio to fire up republicans fighting to save john kasich s bill.
you to be able to do is to continue to extinguish innocent life. you see, if we could do that, satan wins. see, in the governor-elect al gory there, is what satan wants is to ban all abortions and hormonal birth control, it was satan who wanted that to fail in mississippi. as it turns out, that measure did fail in mississippi, but a huge margin, by double digits. so the state s next governor has the voters of mississippi to thank both for his and for satan s victories in last night s mississippi election. and now he is faced with the unique challenge of governing an electorate that he has accused of voting for satan by a 16-point margin. which would be awkward. the mississippi electorate is a very conservative one. these fertilized egg as person ones have not done well elsewhere in the country.
evil. the evil dark side that exists in this world is taking hold. and they re saying, what we want you to be able to do is to continue to extinguish innocent life. you see, if we could do that, satan wins. see, in the governor-elect al gory there, is what satan wants is to ban all abortions and hormonal birth control, it was satan who wanted that to fail in mississippi. as it turns out, that measure did fail in mississippi, but a huge margin, by double digits. so the state s next governor has the voters of mississippi to thank both for his and for satan s victories in last night s mississippi election. and now he is faced with the unique challenge of governing an electorate that he has accused of voting for satan by a 16-point margin. which would be awkward. the mississippi electorate is a
up later in the show tonight. so the democrat won that race in iowa. the democrats, there, hold on to the state senate in iowa. and the genius republican plan by the genius republican governor there is foiled. that happened in iowa. even though there was national focus on ballot measures in a few different states last night, off-the-radar places like iowa and new jersey and kentucky had some pretty striking results. in kentucky, a number of statewide office holders were up for election, and it was nearly a clean sweep for the democrats, in kentucky. democratic governor steve bashir and abramsome won re-election by a 20-point margin. the state auditor s race and the attorney general s race, despite some big national guns weighing in on that attorney general race on behalf of the republican, people like mike huckabee, rudy giuliani, sarah palin, the republican in the ag s race just got creamed. and in fact, in all of those other races.
but it s mississippi. in 2001, mississippi voted to keep the confederate flag as a part of its state flag by a 28-point margin. in 2004, mississippi voted to ban gay marriage by a 72-point margin. 72 points was the margin of victory. every single county in mississippi voted in favor of the gay marriage ban. that s a simple map. this year in 2011, a public policy polling survey found only 40% of mississippi republicans think that interracial marriage should be legal. so mississippi has a really radical, really conservative record when it comes to their opinions and their voting record on other mississippians rights. survey usa served all 50 states on abortion rights in 2005. the national average was 56% of americans identifying themselves as pro-choice. in mississippi, though, you can drop that by nearly 20 points, please.