Voters rushed to the polls to scribble out their ballots and optimize their opinions on Tuesday, November 2nd. A varitety of issues were being decided on, spanning from senate seats to puppy mills.

Republican Roy Blunt took Missouri’s senate seat over democrat Robin Carnahan with 54.3 percent of the votes. Blunt is strongly opposed to the Obama administration, and aims at introducing a new energy policy, health care solutions, and creating jobs for Missouri.

Three Missourians now fill seats in the House of Representatives. Lary Clay, democrat, took the seat for District one with 73.5 percent of the votes. Todd Akin, republican, was elected with 67.9 percent of the votes to represent District two. Representing District three is Russ Carnahan, democrat, who took the seat with a 48.9 percent majority of the votes.

Missourians also voted to make a few amendments to its state constitution. The Missouri Constitutional Amendment #1, which required the office of a county assessor to be an elected position in counties with a charter form of government, passed with a 74.1 percent majority. The Missouri Constitutional Amendment #2, which allows property used as a home by former prisoners of war with disabilities to be exempt from property taxes, passed with a 65.8 percent majority. The Missouri Constitutional Amendment #3, which prevents any new tax from being imposed on the transfer or selling of homes, passed with an 83.7 percent majority.

St. Louis Cardinal Manager Tony La Russa’s precious Proposition B barely passed with a 51.6 percent majority. This proposition places specific requirements for the treatment and living conditions of dogs in large-scale puppy mills.

On a subject more close to home, citizens of Kirkwood also voted on Propositions one and two. Proposition one passed with 58.7 percent of citizens voting yes. It borrows $33,575,000 for renovating, improving, and furnishing different facilities in the Kirkwood School District. Proposition two, however, did not pass, with 52.3 percent of Kirkwood citizens voting ‘no’. If passed, proposition two would have borrowed $14,845,000 and imposed a 4.5 cent tax increase for an aquatic center at KHS, improved handicap-accessibility to Lyons Stadium, and renovated playing fields for schools of the Kirkwood School District.

Members of KHS’s various aquatic sports are deeply upset with the failed proposition, having put in enormous amounts of time and effort into persuading people to pass the proposition.

“We work so hard to train,” Elizabeth Klippel, sophomore and member of the girls swim team, said. “But we could be a lot better with a better pool to train in. Meramec isn’t going to be there forever.”