Election Results

Since it has been determined to be absolutely necessary to overthrow the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, even though Egypt and Israel had managed to co-exist for several decades, the results are now a tragedy ("Islamist wins Egypt presidency," June 25). President Barack Obama was instrumental in supporting this and used the might of theU.S. military to help achieve it. He had to know that the vacuum created would be eventually filled by the Muslim Brotherhood, a virulent anti-Semitic organization, whose stated chief goal is the eradication of Israel and the Jewish people.

I think President Obama's claim that the election results were a mandate is stretching reality ("On taxes, 'Americans agree' with Obama, Axelrod says," Nov. 12). Approximately 120 million people voted in the election, and of that number a little more than 58 million voted for Mr. Romney. Mr. Obama's margin of victory was only about 1.6 percent. Almost half the voters opposed his policies. Granted, Mr. Obama won a clear majority of electoral votes. But the huge number of people who voted against him does not give him the mandate he claims.

A group of about 30 angry voters gathered at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore yesterday to voice their concern over the general election in November, again charging that the gubernatorial race was "stolen" by Democrats and calling for election reform.Carrying placards of protest, the group of Republicans and a few Democrats walked four blocks west to a building that houses the Maryland attorney general's office. There, the protesters denounced the office for defending the election at a trial in January, among other criticisms.

President Obama's re-election has caused right-wingers to become completely unhinged. They are purple-faced and apoplectic, convinced that an ignorant horde of government-dependent social leeches have destroyed traditional America and banished God from the country. The craziest comments came from certifiably loony celebrities. Gun-crazy rocker Ted Nugent tweeted that "Pimps whores and welfare brats and their soulless supporters hav (sic) a president to destroy America," while former "Saturday Night Live" goofball Victoria Jackson let loose a series of tweets, saying in part, "Thanks a lot, Christians, for not showing up. You disgust me ... In the Good vs. Evil battle, today Evil won. " Egomaniacal rich guy Donald Trump simply called for a revolution.

Final unofficial election results, compiled Friday by the county elections board, changed no outcomes but narrowed Democrat Martin O'Malley's victory to a tight 677-vote edge over Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in the gubernatorial race. County voters were kinder to other Democrats. Benjamin L. Cardin won the U.S. Senate contest with a nearly 10,000-vote edge over Michael S. Steele, and Democrats running for state comptroller and attorney general had even larger victory margins.

Travelers overseas on Nov. 3 and 4 will be able to keep abreast of the presidential election results at get-togethers around TV sets. American communities in cities like London and Paris, for example, usually organize such events, although some are private. Now Hong Kong has taken up the election theme.Several American groups in the colony, including the League of Women Voters, the American Chamber of Commerce and the American University Club, are presenting a gala called Election Central '92 Hong Kong in the Marriott Hotel ballroom from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 4, the day after the election.

A self-described political outsider upset the well-organized, well-financed campaign of a top prosecutor in the Democratic primary for Howard County state's attorney yesterday.Dario Broccolino, coordinator of the Maryland State's Attorneys Association, beat Michael Weal, a 17-year veteran prosecutor who works as chief of the District Court division of the state's attorney's office.In the race for the county school board, 19-year-old Jamie Kendrick of Elkridge was among the top four vote-getters whose names will go on the general election ballot for two available seats.

Perhaps the most difficult thing to figure out about this year's election results is the message the voters were sending to the Supreme Court about how the politicians and the pressure groups would handle the abortion issue if it were left entirely or mostly to them to manage.That is a question of fundamental importance, because the Supreme Court appears to be thinking seriously -- for the first time in its history -- of letting a matter that had been governed almost exclusively by the Constitution be settled in the political arena.

Somebody needs to break the news to the Republican candidates looking to unseat President Barack Obama that the conservative tide that swept the nation in 2010 has receded. Denying public employees the right to bargain collectively and calling for strict limits on the reproductive rights of women won't necessarily play well in 2012. At least it didn't on Tuesday, when voters in several telltale states went to the polls for local elections. Most encouraging for Democrats was the overwhelming defeat of Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich's law limiting the collective bargaining rights of some 350,000 government workers.

LONDON -- Nationwide local election results yesterday scuttled the Conservative government's prospects of calling an early general election to give Prime Minister John Major his own popular mandate.Both the major opposition Labor Party and the minority Liberal-Democrats scored successes at Conservative expense, leaving the government in a state of political shock.Mr. Major admitted that the results were "quite disappointing," but he quickly added that, with the economy showing signs of recovery, there was "a great deal to look forward to."

As a septuagenarian (and Democrat), I was happy that President Barack Obama won re-election, but sad that the morning-after TV news shows reported the win as "the election results validated the Obama team's game plan," rather than the election was the result of a real choice of the American people ("Re-election," Nov. 7). Our elections are now reported by commentators who appear to have been trained primarily as sportscasters and who speak of who "wins" rather than who was elected, how many points ahead or behind a candidate's "game plan" may be and generally cover campaigns as sporting events.

UPDATED 2:18 p.m. [ President and Vice President of the United States (Maryland) ] 0 of 1846 precincts reporting All Write Ins 0% 0 Barack Obama And Joe Biden 0% 0 Jill Stein And Cheri Honkayla 0% 0 Gary Johnson And James P. Gray 0% 0 Mitt Romney And Paul Ryan 0% 0 [ U.S. Senator ] 0 of 1846 precincts reporting All Write Ins 0% 0 Ben Cardin 0% 0 Dean Ahmad 0% 0 Daniel John Bongino 0% 0 S. Rob Sobhani 0% 0 [ Question 1 - P.G. County Orphans' Court ]

Since it has been determined to be absolutely necessary to overthrow the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, even though Egypt and Israel had managed to co-exist for several decades, the results are now a tragedy ("Islamist wins Egypt presidency," June 25). President Barack Obama was instrumental in supporting this and used the might of theU.S. military to help achieve it. He had to know that the vacuum created would be eventually filled by the Muslim Brotherhood, a virulent anti-Semitic organization, whose stated chief goal is the eradication of Israel and the Jewish people.

Democrat Tom Barrett's defeat in Wisconsin is also a loss for Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Democratic Governors Association which poured about $3.2 million into the attempt to topple Republican Gov. Scott Walker. O'Malley noted in a statement that Democrats were outspent "ten to one" in Wisconsin. He looked for the silver lining of last night's election results in Wisconsin, saying in a statement that "Republican governors across the country are on notice" and "The people of their states will not tolerate partisan overreach.

Somebody needs to break the news to the Republican candidates looking to unseat President Barack Obama that the conservative tide that swept the nation in 2010 has receded. Denying public employees the right to bargain collectively and calling for strict limits on the reproductive rights of women won't necessarily play well in 2012. At least it didn't on Tuesday, when voters in several telltale states went to the polls for local elections. Most encouraging for Democrats was the overwhelming defeat of Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich's law limiting the collective bargaining rights of some 350,000 government workers.

Votes have been counted from both Ward 1 and Ward 2 polling locations, as well as early voting ballots and any absentee ballots received so far. Results do not include 24 provisional ballots; 11 absentee ballots; and four provisional absentee ballots. Mayor Valerie Cunningham, 454 Craig Moe, 953 Michael Sarich, 496 Council at-large Michael Leszcz, 1,058 Adrian Rousseau, 727 Council Ward 1 Valerie Nicholas, 562 H. Edward Ricks, 598 Council Ward 2 Donna Crary, 708 Frederick Smalls, 665 These results have been updated.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- Not a single Muslim is believed to live in the eastern Bosnian city of Srebrenica. Thousands fled, or were killed, when Bosnian Serb gunmen seized the enclave more than two years ago in what human rights officials call Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.But, based on municipal election results released yesterday, Srebrenica has voted for a city council with a Muslim majority.Victory by Muslim candidates in Srebrenica, and in several other eastern Bosnian municipalities purged violently of non-Serbs, was made possible because refugees were allowed to cast ballots in races in their prewar hometowns.

With only Baltimore City offices being contested, local television stations are planning to provide what one news executive termed "standard election night coverage" of today's primaries.The biggest change in programming will be at WBFF-TV (Fox 45), which will expand its hourlong "News At Ten" to an hour-and-a-half, pushing back the start of "The Arsenio Hall Show" to 11:30 p.m. The expanded newscast will allow the station to provide late election results as well as present the "lion's share" of non-election news, according to news director Mark Pimentel.

Baltimore Mayor Democratic primary 290 of 290 precincts (100%) Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (i): 36,698 (52%) Catherine Pugh: 17,743 (25%) Otis Rolley: 8,991 (13%) Joseph Landers: 4,870 (7%) Frank Conaway: 1,899 (3%) Wilton Wilson: 215 (0%) Republican primary 290 of 290 precincts (100%) Alfred Griffin: 828 (51%) Vicki Harding: 806 (49%) City council president Democratic primary 290 of 290 precincts (100%) Bernard Young (i): 47,190 (75%) Tom Kiefaber: 5,390 (9%) Charles Smith: 4,205 (7%)

As the GOP approaches its winter meeting Saturday, it appears that this patient has taken a turn for the worse, and loved ones are in denial. Candidates for the party offices, many of them my friends, have offered little but the same old trite ideas that have gotten us to the point of soon being totally irrelevant. Without an honest assessment of the election results, registration and demographic trends, and an appropriate response, how can those newly elected party leaders, or those who elected them, expect a different result?