before last night, no lawmaker had ever lost his or her job in a recall election in the history of the great state of arizona. before last night, no state senate president had ever been recalled in the history of the united states of america. both of those precedents were established last night by this guy, russell pearce, recalled from office bay big margin. he has been the most powerful republican in the state of arizona who is not the governor, jan brewer. and some say he s been even more powerful than she is. russell was the architect of sb-1070, the law to demand documentation, to demand papers from anyone who looked like they might be an illegal immigrant. what does an illegal immigrant look like? does it look like me? i do not know. i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i can tell you that i think that
before last night, no lawmaker had ever lost his or her job in a recall election in the history of the great state of arizona. before last night, no state senate president had ever been recalled in the history of the united states of america. both of those precedents were established last night by this guy, russell pearce, recalled from office bay big margin. he has been the most powerful republican in the state of arizona who is not the governor, jan brewer. and some say he s been even more powerful than she is. russell was the architect of sb-1070, the law to demand documentation, to demand papers from anyone who looked like they might be an illegal immigrant. what does an illegal immigrant look like? does it look like me? i do not know. i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i can tell you that i think that there are people in arizona that assume they know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i don t know if they know that
no matter how ridiculous it was on their face. gamely spinning kentucky as if it was a big win for republicans and mitch mcconnell as they lost all state-wide races except ag commissioner. yeah, right, politico, that ll do. one perhaps unremarked upon feature from last night s election results that the there were really big margins in a lot of the races that were expected to be hard-fought. that iowa state senate race wasn t close. the democrat won there by 12 points. in maine where voters citizen vetoed a voting laws, by reinstating same-day voter registration, the margin was 20 points. the mississippi personhood amendment not only lost but lost by 16 points. more on that coming up in a 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
laugh out loud for mitch mcconnell to even trying to spin this as a positive, but also to think politico.com to being the totally credulous stenographer for whatever it was that mitch mcconnell wanted them to report, no matter how ridiculous it was on their face. gamely spinni inning kentucky a it was a big win for republicans and mitch mcconnell as they lost all state-wide races except ag commissioner. yeah, right, politico, that ll do. one perhaps unremarked upon feature from last night s election results that the there were really big margins in a lot of the races that were expected to be hard-fought. that iowa state senate race wasn t close. the democrat won there by 12 points. in maine where voters citizen vetoed a voting laws, by reinstating same-day voter registration, the margin was 20 points. the mississippi personhood amendment not only lost but lost by 16 points. more on that coming up in a
very conservative one. these fertilized egg as person ones have not done well elsewhere in the country. 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