Given the best opportunity in years to begin dragging our state back from the brink of destruction, California voters appear to be balking. I'm very discouraged to see every proposition I backed losing except for, at this moment, Proposition 75 which will protect the dues of union workers. Ah well; in the end that may turn out to be the most important proposition on the ballot.
Update, the next morning:
Nope, they all failed. Good job California. Sigh. Someone was telling me about some great tech jobs in Idaho.... Turnout was a miserable 42.6 percent, which means that if enough Republicans had felt connected to the issues and interested in changing the status quo we could have passed every proposition handily.
I won't fall into the Democrat's trap of blaming the "stupid" voters or attributing these losses to "bad communication". I honestly think Californians either like the way things are, don't want to improve their lot, or don't think it's possible. So it goes. We have to do more convincing, I suppose.
The only good news is that my mom won re-election in our local school board election. Congrats!
(HT: Patterico.)
Here's a new voting system for Californians: They should vote first on how much they hate the current law, and then on how much they hate the new proposal. If they hate the new less then the old, then the new one should be accepted!
This voting system would take into account how much they hate their legislature in general. :)
People get the government they deserve. Nice going jerks.
I would. Less than two months ago, all four Schwarzinitiatives were poised to pass handily. No new "winning arguments" surfaced to the contrary, just the usual slew of dishonest ads, none of which should have convinced anyone with an above-room temperature IQ of anything. Yet, in the end, Californians overwhelmingly voted "yes" on lifetime employment for the privileged class, "yes" on legalized looting, "no" on balanced budgets and, most importantly, "no" on the very concept of representative democracy.
Stupid is as stupid does.
X: Yeah well, I agree, but I just don't know how far that will get us :/
i don't know too much about what props were on your ballot, but i did want to say you fared far better than us (texas) on the voter turnout. you think 42.6% is miserable turnout? try 17.82% on something as important as an amendment to the state constitution.