Election Miscellany

Yesterday turned out to be an even bigger day than lots of pundits expected, with Democrats picking up 28 seats for a majority in the House of Representatives and a good chance at a majority in the Senate, too, if two races still in the balance come down the way it looks like they're going to. Dems also picked up 6 governorships. (btw, Mike Antonnucci is funny in re: wrong election predictions) DCEdublog has results for the D.C. races I mentioned Monday. Edspresso's got a run-down of races around the country they felt were particularly relevant to education. Ed at NCLBlog proclaims the defeat of all three state TABOR initiatives (but cut it out with the midwest-mocking, already!). CNN's got results for all races here.

Andy and Alexander Russo say the implications for education aren't much to talk about. I agree: a George Miller-led Ed-Workforce committee isn't going to eviscerate NCLB. Apparently Edspresso's Ryan Boots didn't get the message, though.

And, Joe Williams wonders why we close schools on election day. In D.C., at least, we didn't--yesterday was a school day for DCPS students. But most D.C. polling places aren't located in schools. As far as Joe's question is concerned, my guess is that it probably has to do with patronage, but also concerns about student safety with lots of random adults in a school and just general logistical hassels.

UPDATE: Ed had more to say this afternoon about TABOR (Ezra Klein also discusses TABOR over at TAPPED) and other state initiatives, including a failed "65% solution" initiative in Colorado, which reminds me that my former colleague Alexander Wohl has an American Prospect piece on the stupidity of the whole "65 % solution" idea.