Ok, so the Dems are winning nationally, and that's great and all, but as of 10:25pm, Prop 90 is winning.
Proposition - 90 Eminent Domain - California 7736 of 25231 Precincts Reporting
Name Votes Pct No 1,314,840 50.02 Yes 1,313,614 49.98
That stinks. Stinks, stinks, stinks. I don't think people really understand how bad it will be if Prop 90 passes.
I know some Democrats are doing well, but if you look at the CA race, just as many seats are going to the GOP. Looks like McClintock will win by about 2.5%...but don't worry, the Green Party candidate got almost 3% of the vote! Okay, so it's not exactly the Green's fault, but what's wrong with California?
Allegations of Schwarzenegger's sexual assault are swept under the rug in the same breath that voters decide that people convicted of sex crimes should wear GPS tracking devices for the rest of their lives. (In defense of California voters apparent hypocrisy--the sex crimes proposition won't really be effective--it encourages sex offenders to live in close proximity with others of similar pathology, and wastes a ridiculous amount of money on tracking devices that don't prevent offenders from molesting the people they are most likely to take advantage of--family members.)
Proposition - 83 Sex Offenders - California 7911 of 25231 Precincts Reporting
Name Votes Pct 
Yes 1,907,644 70.29 No 806,146 29.71
Proposition - 86 Cigarette Tax - California 7844 of 25231 Precincts Reporting
Name Votes Pct No 1,479,988 53.84 Yes 1,268,938 46.16
Proposition - 87 Alternative Energy - California 7844 of 25231 Precincts Reporting
Name Votes Pct No 1,557,334 56.98 Yes 1,175,805 43.02
But seriously, the campaign finance prop? Isn't anyone else sick of all the crap we get in the mail before every election? I don't watch commercials anymore, thanks to my DVR, but I hear those are pretty darn annoying too. Why the heck wouldn't we want a cap on election spending?
Proposition - 89 Campaign Financing - California 7769 of 25231 Precincts Reporting
Name Votes Pct No 1,990,751 73.91 Yes 702,861 26.09
All in all, I'm disappointed. Again.
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It's 11:30 now and it looks like Prop 90 has a chance at being defeated. Maybe I freaked out prematurely.
In other potentially good news, as weak a candidate as Patricia Madrid seems to be, voters in my home state just might give Heather Wilson the boot!
Apparently I really did need to wait until all the votes had been counted. Californians, you aren't SO bad. You defeated Prop 90, voted to keep overdevelopment and the NFL out of the Rosebowl, the city of LA voted for more money for affordable housing and Garamendi beat McClintock afterall.
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