Finally it's over. Yes, I'm very disappointed. Not only in what I see as another 4 years of an ineffectual president but that 10(11?) states voted to ban gay marriage. I really have only one thing to say about it, your god and I are deeply disappointed in you.

I voted for Kerry, if that wasn't already very obvious. What might come as a surprise is I voted against Amendment 36. There were three main reasons for this. First, the primary reason, I think it is unconstitutional. This is obviously different from before where even if it was unconstitutional I wanted to send a message to our legislators. I guess if I want to get this passed id rather do it in a way that would make it constitutional, by getting legislators elected who will support and pass it. Second, it would have been retro-active. As much as I might not care about a smooth election I do care about using what I think of as an important idea as a purely political tool for either democrats or republicans. Finally, after discussing and reading a lot more about it I've changed my opinion. Not that I feel there doesn't need to be a change but that I think that change still has the electoral college in it. I've come to the conclusion that the electoral college needs to stay, while not in the form it currently is in and not for the same reasons as others might have, but for the primary reason that small states be given more say in the election. The form of electoral college I think would best fit is much like amendment 36 where the electoral votes would be split based on popular vote, but only the House Representative votes. The majority winner would take both the Senate votes.

On the good side as someone pointed out to me, at least now the democrats control the Colorado House and Ken Salazar beat Pete Coors. Though I did not much like Stan Matsunaka I very much like Marilyn Musgrave less and would have liked anything but Musgrave getting reelected.

Out of all this we can take a few things away from this election. We are a very deeply divided nation, as was the case after the 2000 election, and can look forward to this continuing. While this division has always been a part of American politics to a varying degree I think after an election the division was not quite so deep. The republicans control the presidency, the senate, and the house, dealing the democrats another resounding defeat. I hate the direction our country has been going in the last 4 years and I seriously doubt thats going to change in the next coming 4 years. George W. Bush said he would reach across the divide and try to bring the two parties together, he failed then and will likely fail now.