How did it go?
By Amber
@AmbiePam (93740)
United States
November 9, 2018 4:04pm CST
So this last Tuesday was the day of midterm elections. Oklahoma was electing a new governor, and judges on the Oklahoma Supreme Court were up for reelection, as well as judges for The court of Civil Appeals. In addition, we had about seven state questions up for vote. You better believe I voted. There really was no reason not to. I voted in absentee, which means I did it through the mail. Thousands did the early voting as so many places were open for it.
The results of the election for my state pleased me. Sure, a few things weren't how I wanted, but on the whole I was pleased. My feeling is if you have the time to complain about your country you have time to vote. I mean you can do it from home, how much easier can it get?
How did it end up for you? Were you happy with the results in your state? And non Americans, in your country's last election, we're you happy with how it turned out?
I have a question for those in other states: do you elect the governor and lieutenant governor separately? We elect them separately and the option to change that was rejected in this past week's election. I mean I like that the President and Vice President of the United States are on one ticket, but I appreciate that we can have different parties as governor and lieutenant governor. I was wondering if that is how they do it in every state.
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12 responses
@snowy22315 (181957)
• United States
9 Nov 18
Both my candidates won, so yes, I was reasonably happy.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
16 Nov 18
I'm from Connecticut so not much changed here which isn't necessarily a good thing!!
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@just4him (317249)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
18 Nov 18
It's one ticket. I voted. We voted in a new governor, congressmen, and state assembly were up for election, plus we had some important issues to vote on as well. Only a couple people I voted for were elected or re-elected. We'll see how the newly appointed work out for the state.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
14 Nov 18
I agree. For many years women couldnt vote- it is our responsibility now that we can
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@LadyDuck (471992)
• Switzerland
10 Nov 18
I cannot vote in Switzerland, I am Italian, so I receive the forms to vote when in Italy there are politic elections. We do not vote to elect the President in Italy, he is elected by an electoral college comprising the two chambers of Parliament (the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic).
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Nov 18
We didn't get the governor we wanted but I'm not surprised as out state tends to swing from one oats to the next and a republican had it most recently so it went the other way which is pretty common. It seems to do that with the outside many time too.
As far as the vice-govenor I don't ever remember biting for one of those before.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
9 Nov 18
We had provincial elections in September. The results were not clear....no one party had a clear majority. While initially it was a bit of a muddle in the long run a minority government is much better for the general population. There seems to be a much more balanced approach.
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