Total turnout today for elections in Brattleboro was 69%, or 6005 of 8701 possible voters.
For President:
Hillary Clinton – 4347
Rocky De La Fuente – 9
Gary Johnson – 95
Jill Stein – 236
Gloria Lariva – 6
Donald Trump – 858
Leahy and Welch win for congressional seats.
For Governor, Brattleboro says:
Bill “Spaceman” Lee – 233
Sue Minter – 4206
Phil Scott – 1321
For Lieutenant Governor, Brattleboro says:
Randy Brock – 1191
Boots Wardinski – 185
David Zuckerman – 4261
In the State Senate race:
Becca Balint – 3714
Aaron Diamondstone – 311
Jerry Levy – 396
David Schoales – 1628
Jeanette White – 3330
For State Representative:
Valerie Stuart – 1761
Mollie Burke – 1445
Adam Salviani – 321
Tristan Toleno – 1611
See the attachment for the complete list. Congratulations to all who participated.
Jill Stein didn't even make the list?
Hard to believe, and the attachment speaks not of it.
Oops - 236
She’s there. I was typing fast and missed her, but added her back in. Thanks for noticing!
I know there was at least one write in for Bernie . . .
There must be at least one.
coming, I think
I think write-ins are counted next and included in the official results.
So Phil Scott and David Zuckerman for VT. To what do we attribute Minter’s loss?
From Seven Days Article
“Even though Sanders didn’t appear on the presidential ballot, his ultra-blue home state still found a way to honor him: Some 13,000 Vermont voters wrote-in his name. That was nearly 4 percent of the statewide tally — more than the total for Libertarian Gary Johnson.”
http://m.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/11/09/sanders-breaks-his-silence-on-trumps-election
344
Reformer says 344 write-ins for Bernie Sanders, perhaps the most Annette Cappy has seen on a presidential ticket in 28 years.
Sanders Supporter's Analysis
In a lengthy article, Jonathan Tasini wrote the following:
FThere is no doubt in my mind that Bernie Sanders would have defeated Trump. His authenticity would have pierced through Trump’s fraudulent appeal. His concise, point-by-point evisceration of a failed economic model and aggressive, blundering foreign policy was entirely understandable to voters.
As one of Sen. Sanders’ national surrogates, I went to dozens of his rallies. At each one, he took to the stage, a big sheaf of papers in his hands, and, treating people as adults not just backdrops for TV ads, he conducted a seminar on America and the globe. People are quite familiar with Sanders’ economic agenda, including higher taxes on the wealthy, expanding Social Security and a single-payer Medicare for All system. All of which were sound economically, not to mention morally urgent.
FULL ARTICLE
Clocked
Trying to not add to the dung heap of armchair analyses here, but airing the one thing that haunts me most. This article lays out a fair dissection of Clintons and Democrats and by extension our system. Yet when I hear the cries of, “Flawed Candidate, or Warren, Bernie, Biden…would’ve been better”… I think one thing- which is revealed in this line from the article
It was clear before this election and now even moreso.. a plurality, or at least an electoral majority…did not, do not want to be treated as adults…They’d prefer being infantilized, easy money, hot chicks, a never-ending ball game, big cool explosions, luxury pads, jumbo creamies, (soft like baby food) a big bad bully to bow to and cower under..etc.
Of all my roles, as a parent mostly, I grieve for the moment. I offer my kids the usual platitudes about survival, and creative revolt in dark times, centering, basking in nature, the standard palaver that doesnt quite cut it. Thinking back to when they were young children, struggling to make sense of the world, there was nothing that could make them grow any faster, other than time. There was no hurrying, protesting, lobbying, buying or bribing time.
In terms of the environment, our ecosphere, endangered species, as I take it, the world…it feels like time is running away from us.
A class based election
Nothing like a common enemy to unite and rally the troops. The good of this election is that the left now has a pretty well articulated agenda, and the interest groups are noticing that working together is powerful and successful. Sanders’ umbrella approach united some desperate causes. Labor knows Black Lives Matter, and so on. Marching and protest have ALREADY begun, and he isn’t even sworn-in.
I’m also slightly heartened by the fact that Trump isn’t that organized himself. That is, this isn’t George W. bringing Cheney and a neocon team with an agenda. It’s more of a clown car, winging it. I anticipate some GOP reorganization, but that party, like the Democrats, is broken. I have doubts that they can unite they way they used to, and bet they have trouble agreeing on an agenda.
I look to the people, and see that they are tired of business as usual, pretty much across the board (except for this who voted for status quo). The key to the left’s success will be in finding common ground with the other angry Americans.
Trump is unstable, but he’s equally unstable to the right. He does “Democrat things” when it suits him. Tactics that work his ego might do well.
Glenn Greenwald, in a similar analysis, plus further insights
This just came in, Democracy Now.
Glenn gives a very cogent analysis of Bernie’s role, and of the media’s undoing of it.
I found it to be quite an insightful read.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/10/glenn_greenwald_bernie_sanders_would_have