Posted on 11/03/2009 7:46:12 PM PST by HamiltonJay
28% Reporting, rejection of Gay Marriage up 50.51%
I am assuming this is the rural vote beginning to turn up?
The state has been under a constant flood of liberals and moonbats moving there for 30 + years. As per moonbat motive, they have gotten themselves involved with local gov., elections, school board etc. to help the ignorant natives of Maine whom they find ‘ quaint, better seen than heard and in need of enlightenment ‘.
The numbers of people you meet there who were not born there stagger the imagination. Once a solid Republican state with exceptional natives the state is a damned mess of moonbats.
64% reporting
Yes — 191,884 51.7%
No — 179,171 48.3
12,000-the lead grows!!!
We are winning in Washington State as well!!!
Washington State has swung the other way:
Approve or reject a bill that makes same-sex partner rights equivalent to those of married spouses
Approve — 442,690 52.0%
Reject — 408,476 48.0
Yep. I sure appreciate the influx of brainless leftist asshats moving into Utah from California after they turned it into an unsustainable socialist dungheap.
Maine-65% reporting
Yes — 199,969 51.7%
No — 186,733 48.3
Lead grows to 13,000!
(Yes is to repeal gay marriage in Maine)
Oddly enough, the rural areas don’t seem to reporting any more slowly than York or Cumberland counties. HUGE prosodomy vote out of Cumberland.
Maine-66% reporting
Yes — 201,616 51.8%
No — 187,699 48.2
Lead grows to 14,000!
(Yes is to repeal gay marriage in Maine)
68% reporting
Yes — 206,401 51.8%
No — 191,997 48.2
(Yes is to repeal gay marriage in Maine)
This isn’t going to last forever.
The way the trend is, Over the next 5-10 years we’ll be suffering defeat on alot of these gay marriage referendums.
Even the rural areas have their bastions of liberalism. Check out Cranberry Isle.
What is heartbreaking is that it is so close.
Also: why is a “voter approval for tax increases” being defeated 60-40??? Why wouldn’t the voters of Maine want to APPROVE THEIR OWN TAXES?
I’m in Maine and I cast my vote on a paper ballot.
There were seven ballot initiatives....with a pencil, you had to write an X or a check mark on a small square box in front of the word YES or NO for each one. Then you folded up the paper ballot and stuffed it in a slot in a large wooden box after you exited the small voting both.
In the larger cities, I imagine they have voting machines.
I’m in a small town in northeastern Maine.
The bulk of Maine’s population is in the south....closer to Massachusetts. Many Mass. residents have moved here over the years and brought their liberal voting patterns with them.
There are conservatives here, but we’re not in the majority.
I’m happy to say that in spite of alot of moonbats here, there are plenty of people who are not....also, the Second Amendment is very strong here, just as strong as in Texas.
71% reporting
Yes — 216,040 51.8%
No — 200,863 48.2
Lead grows to 16,000!!!
Trends change. Backlash happens. There’s always going to be a battle... you just keep fighting.
Cumberland County is dragging ass; only 65% in. That’s not good as this is the basis of the sodomy vote.
TABOR....The Taxpayers Bill of Rights.....is being defeated.
39% YES, 61% NO.
If you lived in Maine, you’d understand why. Every few years TABOR gets on the ballot, and then the teacher’s unions spend $1.3 million on ads, the firemen and police get into the act, and so on. The “Yes” people only had a few weak ads on the TV and radio which were unclear, confusing and didn’t even mention TABOR or the Proposition number by name. The NO people....who had millions of dollars pumped into Maine from out-of-state....ran THOUSANDS of commercials on TV and radio, claiming that TABOR would make the recession worse, kids wouldn’t have heat in their schools in winter, public safety would be in jeopardy because of supposed cuts in police and firefighters, etc.
The anti-TABOR people claimed it’s passage would take away local control from cities and towns.
They also ran commercials on the radio with doctors, teachers, elected officials, etc. from Colorado claiming that TABOR was a disaster for that state, and don’t make the same mistake we made, blah blah blah.
Bottom line....the anti-TABOR people had millions of dollars and thousands of ads, the pro-TABOR people were as poor as church mice and had only a few weak ads. That’s why it lost.
Wow... very interesting post in #57. Thanks for that very clear explanation.
You’re welcome.
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