LIVE THREAD - California special election (props 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80)

California Secretary of State- Special Statewide Election ^ | Tuesday evening November 8th

[ajolympian2004]

TODAY, Californians are heading to the polls to vote on several major propositions that shall dramatically affect both the political and economic future of our state.

We are following the activity and will report the results.

California Propositions

2.8% of precincts reporting as of Nov 08 08:13 PM PST

Results: http://www.sfgate.com/election/

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yep, I was wrong. I get the line between SB and Riverside mixed up out there...

[defenderSD]

I justed check my Cal map in Microsoft's "Streets & Trips" software and Redlands is about 3 miles north of the Riverside county line in San Bernadino county. Close but no biscuit on this attempt...lol.

[California Patriot]

If it passes, it will be thrown out by the Ninth Circuit, which does the liberals' bidding. Eventually the U.S. Supreme Court might disagree, but in the meantime, the unions will have had two more years to run this state into the ground.

I think all this is moot, however. The trend line for 75 tonight has been straight down.

[newzjunkey]

It's just a flesh wound Sarge.. I can make it. ;-)

Amen!

[NormsRevenge]

re: conservatives much less republicans not turning out when so much was at stake, the question that remains to be answered is why indeed. aren't there like 5 of 5.5 million registered?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I looked it up -- it's SB...

[SpringheelJack]

For example, instead of embracing Arnold, they still ran McClintock who siphoned off enough Republican votes to potentially scuttle the deal if there hadn't been enough traditional Democrats voting for Arnold.

The party tried to get McClintock to drop, but he wouldn't do it. Wasn't much they could do, short of pulling something illegal. They did get Simon and Uberroth to pull out.

[Crackingham]

72% of precincts reporting statewide. 50.9% vote no on 73. 50.7% vote no on 75. Lotsa votes yet to be counted from libbie strongholds. This is starting to look like a bloodbath.

[DoughtyOne]

In the long run Bill, it's still best to explain what your values are, promote them and implement them.

If we don't talk about fiscal conservancy who will? If we don't impose fiscal conservancy who will? If we don't promote these things, how can we stand up on election day and say that we are any different than the democrats? And if we can't proclaim the issues that are ours, on what basis do we seek to win elections?

Two Democrats won election today claiming to be fiscal conservatives. They are two tax and spend democrats, but our people haven't promoted or implemented fiscal conservancy, so the democrats were able to lie and win.

This is but one example of why it is so vitally important to stick to our values, promote our values and implement those values.

Spending...
Land grabs...
Non enforcement of our nation's laws...
Ignorance of Constitutional issues...
Transfers of our top secrets to China...
The dismantling of our military...
The adoption of one military theater level or readiness...

I could go on, but we have utterly failed on these vitally important issues. How then can we claim to be better than democrats on them. We open the door, and they claim these issues as their own and the public is completely baffled as to who is telling the truth.

We have essentially committed political suicide, as it applies to our core values. We're going to pay for this.

We lost two state houses today. What will we lose next fall? If we don't get our act together, we could lose one hell of a lot, and it won't be because we didn't unify behind bad anti-conservative policies.

[Yaelle]

73 and 75 are now down by over 1 point. I think I will call it a [sad] night.

[A CA Guy]

This was simply the power of slander and money at work in this election by the other side.

I think it is great they spent 20% of a billion on defense here in California and would be delighted to see them do it again in the next couple of elections.

We do this again, and their people who were probably had special assessments of their paychecks will also get fed up.

I will practically guarantee you that if we do this again in 2006 and 2008 if need be that we would get these and other goodies passed.

Next time Arnold needs to interview everywhere early and often.
If I were him I would continue also to get his popularity back with the people. The left is going to still IMO spend some more millions to demonize them and he needs to be back and fight them with the same grit that made him as World Champion many times over.

We can do this.
We dare not give up.
I think it is cheap enough to get these things on the ballots and if nothing else, wouldn't you all love to see the libs and unions spend a half billion dollars on defense? I sure love to see it and they can't keep that up.

[L.A.Justice]

I am sorry to say that LA County is liberal...Slightly less than San Francisco...

LA County is huge...But, there are not many GOP members of Congress in the area. (Drier, McKeon, and Miller. I think Dana Rochabacher represents a small piece of LA County.) Four isn't too many.

[Looper]

Yes, we are doomed. OC's mostly in, Alameda is still only 30% reporting, LA mostly unreported.

Game over.

A sad day for us and for California.

[DAC22]

Something funny with the Alameda numbers. It's showing only 30% of the precincts have reported, but turnout at this pooint is 27%. Doesn't that work out to near 80% of the registered voters coming out when all the precincts come home?? Sound fishy

[dsmtoday]

"Social Liberalism cannot exist without fiscal Liberalism."

Keep the government away from me (social liberalism) and my money (fiscal conservatism).

[newzjunkey]

Yup. Sooner or later, the willfully broken immigration policy will do us in and we'll be like France, the Balkans or Israel-Palestine.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Bravo -- well said.

[defenderSD]

You're always such a optomist...lol, especially about Iraq.

[scott says]

latest results 73% VOTES IN----
Prop.73, 49% Yes,50% No
74, 47% Yes,52% No
75, 49% Yes,50% No
76, 39% Yes,60% No
77, 42% Yes, 57% No
78, 41% Yes, 58% No
79, 38% Yes, 61% N0
80, 33% Yes, 66% No

You can't trust the media but they are reporting that its 0 for 8....showing Beverly Hills "rally" where Arnold spoke...EMPTY.....

[Third Order]

73 is dropping fast. Got within 35k, now its 82k, biggest deficit of the night.