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/

[Yaelle]

I feel like you do. I really need to hear from Arnold and the other optimists on our side. This is just a start.

Thank you for the work that you do. I would like to get involved in that one day.

[Simmy2.5]

PROP. 75 JUST SWITCHED TO NO!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I'll grant you his Sierra Nevada Wilderness thing gave me pause. I think he felt he had to do the green-thing in California to survive (though I could be wrong on his motives)... we could solve a whole lot of issues with the greenies by passing HR25 and getting rid of the 501c3's which would cit off the funding for Sierra Club, etc...

[Looper]

75 now losing. Some more from Alameda came in.

[Yaelle]

Can I just say @#%&#^@????

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, yes that's lost!

Well, good luck to you. The central valley is nice in places. I'm not familiar with the town you mentioned though.

[HitmanLV]

Again, undue sensitivity on your part. Call me whatever you like, but a nice collection of losses on the California ballots don't lie.

[Simmy2.5]

And we still have Los Angeles to count!

California is in deep trouble tonight.

[Uncle Kermie]

ALL PROPOSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY LOSING. FIRST TIME THIS EVENING.

Face it everyone - the trend has been down. The Titantic is half way out of the water (the optimistic view of the world), but it's still going down.

[latina4dubya]

I am a Pastor of a church here in the Central Valley, ie Ripon

howdy, neighbor! we're here in Tracy...

[bybybill]

Remember a fellow named Reagan? Won a lot of elections I think. What was it he said about Republicans knocking fellow Republicans? Sounded pretty good at the time and, to me, sounds pretty good now.
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[HitmanLV]

Denial isn't a river in Egypt. While not a disastrous night for the GOP, it was clearly a bad one, wrapping up with a strong set of failures in California.

I don't have to be related to Harry Reid to see that clearly.

[Arizona Carolyn]

That's going to be big! Where are they going? SouthEast?

[vox humana]

With all the propositions going down to defeat in the People's Republic of California, the following quotations from famous people are offered for your enlightenment and entertainment.

In a democracy the people get what the majority deserves.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

[NormsRevenge]

alameda county, the home of Barbara Lee, Pete Stark and Ellen Tauscher, three mental giants in the House of Representatives.

[ER_in_OC,CA]

Gov's political strategist, Mike Murphy, just said he thinks 75 will still pass.

His rationale is that L.A. figures will take 75 underwater, but OC, Riverside, San Diego will even that out. He says there are 200k absentees that came in today that won't be counted until later, so he says "we probably won't know for 24 hours."

[furquhart]

75 is trailing by less than two hundred votes, it would seem.

[Looper]

No kidding. What a bunch of idiots. Highest sales tax in the state.

[Prime Choice]

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