Posted on 11/08/2005 8:20:03 PM PST by 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/
(Excerpt) Read more at vote2005.ss.ca.gov ...
Santa Clara county with 24% reporting. 58.7% vote no on Prop. 73. 52.4% vote no on Prop. 75.
No kidding! That would be the cloud inside the silver lining if 73 did manage to pass! ;-)
I just heard that. "A dangerous law" for our teen girls? Trusting and receiving advice from parents is dangerous? What is "safe"? Having the KKK-Planned Parenthood make life and death decisions for our teens?
That kind of thinking elected Corzine in NJ... so as much as we comiserate over the fate of California, NJ just voted their death warrant tonight.
This state has crossed the fatal boundary where the majority of the population "feels" that for some things they believe to be key to their daily life they depend more on the government than on themselves. The economic, fiscal and social ignorance needed to support this has been successfully foisted on these numbnuts by the self-centered education establishment and the "want-to-be-loved-and-f**k-the-truth-assuming-we-could-even-recognize-it-if=it-spit-us-in-the-face" media establishment.
This state will not recover until we experience a social meltdown of a magnitude that will spark such lack of confidence with state government that human nature and basic competitiveness become significant factors again.
This will work for about one year until all of the revenue generators move to happier climes and there are no more gooses from which to yank golden eggs.
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA: 11.1 per 100,000 (ranked 13th in the nation)
Orange County, CA: 2.2 (ranked 221 in the nation)
Could it be that violence is positively correlated with political liberalism?
Interestingly, New Orleans LA ranked number 1 in the nation in murder rate with a rate of 20.0.
Both 75 and 73 look unlikely to pass, but 75 has a slightly better chance than 73 (which is an awful statement about my great State for so many reasons). It will pick up a tick or two when we sleep tonight because the outlying precincts statewide will report after midnight. Those outlying precincts are in favor of 73 and 75. North LA County, Eastern Bernardino, etc will only help the cause, but I fear they will be "too little, too late".
Again, I'm not betting on a victory, but this is definitely not over.
Only consolation right now...Prop. 75 is only down by 20,000. Too much? Maybe. With 80% of LA still needing to be counted, yes. But at this point, unless it gets too big, Prop. 75 is still plausible.
I'm sorry...GWB is running again?
As for Arnold, I didn't vote for him in the first place. I voted for an actual conservative, not a Kennedy with an "R" by his name.
I'm depressed. Maybe in 20 years I'll move to Nevada or the Northwest.
At the time I posted, heavily Catholic Los Angeles was about 49% yes on Prop 73. LA County isn't nearly as liberal as many counties because it includes very conservative suburbs.
Your name suggests that you lead a very lonely life.
Disagree there. 75 is crucial, and more then we had yesterday.
If a young girl is being raped over and over again, and keeps getting abortions, who'll stop the rapist? No one will even know he exists! Voting against 73 is a "Yes" vote for rapists and pedophiles.
Nearly 200 million tilted this election. In addition most all of the unions and government employees came out to vote.
I think if we do this again in 2006 they will likely pass. Even if they barely miss passing in 2006, by 2008 they will for sure.
Don't you love knowing you have unions and liberals spending 200 million of their monies on these rather than all on their politicians?
I say let's do this again, and again and again.
This should be a beginning, not any ending.
Orange county with 57.8% reporting. 60.3% vote yes on 73. 65.1% vote yes on 75. The bad news is more than half their votes have been counted and everything is still losing statewide.
Hell, the Democrats say the same thing about us.
Anyway, we're pretty good. We just came off a string of nice victories in 2002, 2003, and 2004. Today wasn't our night. I guess the thing to do is figure out where we went wrong and make the necessary adjustments for next year.
It seems a big problem here in California was low turnout in conservative areas.
"73 being close is loathsome. Losing is beyond words."
You're, obviously, having a hard time accepting tonight's realities, as you've posted essentially this very sentiment 23 times.
But then, the morass of a delusional state is born of an inability to accept and adjust to reality.
More of Contra Costa is in than the SoS reports. The trend pretty much continues (a bit worse on 73, actually):
http://www.cocovote.us/
TOTAL VOTES % Election Day Mail Ballots Absentee
PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 556). . . . . 306 55.04
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 492,656
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 153,312 78,561 2,144 72,607
BALLOTS CAST - BLANK. . . . . . . 39 .03 10 1 28
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . 31.12
VOTER TURNOUT - BLANK . . . . . . .01
73 - Waiting Period/Parental Notice Before Termination
Minor's Pregnancy
Vote for no more than 1
(WITH 306 OF 556 PRECINCTS COUNTED 55.04%)
Yes/Si . . . . . . . . . . . 61,604 40.62 28,630 983 31,991
No/No. . . . . . . . . . . . 90,047 59.38 49,281 1,140 39,626
74 - Public School Teachers
Waiting Period Perm Status/Dismissal
Vote for no more than 1
(WITH 306 OF 556 PRECINCTS COUNTED 55.04%)
Yes/Si . . . . . . . . . . . 65,639 43.04 31,303 1,066 33,270
No/No. . . . . . . . . . . . 86,854 56.96 46,932 1,068 38,854
75 - Public Emp Union Dues
Restrict Politic Cont/Emp Consent Req
Vote for no more than 1
(WITH 306 OF 556 PRECINCTS COUNTED 55.04%)
Yes/Si . . . . . . . . . . . 68,547 45.01 30,874 1,174 36,499
No/No. . . . . . . . . . . . 83,734 54.99 47,243 956
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