Poll roundup: Ohio rejects marijuana legalization.
By Raif Karerat
Matt Bevin, the controversial Kentucky conservative who attempted to usurp Sen. Mitch McConnell last year and has vowed to eliminate the state’s Obamacare programs, staged a surprising political comeback on Nov. 3 to win the state’s governorship.
The wealthy business mogul has pledged to shutdown the state’s healthcare exchange and he’s also expressed concerns about the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky under the Affordable Care Act.
Bevin resoundingly thumped Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway 53 percent 44 percent in a race that Bevin was not expected to make any sort of showing in.
Mississippi’s polls saw incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Bryant easily won his re-election against Democrat Robert Gray, a truck driver.
In Virginia, Democrats failed to capture control of the state Senate, where Republicans maintained the same narrow 21-19 majority they held before the election, according to CNN.
Meanwhile, voters have turned down a ballot measure in Ohio that would legalize recreational marijuana.
Issue 3 would have effectively given a select few businessmen a monopoly on cultivating the substance, which would have been sold at a limited number of places for sale in the state.
Farther south, in Houston, CNN projected that voters acted to repeal the “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance,” a measure instituted last year that is designed to protect lesbian, gay and transgender people.
The ballot issue drew national attention when conservative opponents claimed the law would enable troubled men to enter women’s restrooms and locker rooms.