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The Undervote

by: David Dayen

Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 07:27:34 AM PST


I'll have a much larger roundup later.  But it looks to me like there was a significant undervote in the election.  So far, 10.04 million votes have been counted in the Presidential race.  Yet on Prop. 8 we have about 9.9 million votes counted.  The difference there is 79,000 votes.  But that's the smallest discrepancy.  Most of the other statewide ballot measures had undervotes of around 600,000-800,000 votes.  And there are maybe 1 million votes yet to be counted, so this spread could be much higher.

And if you look at the Congressional and state legislature ballots, the spread is just as high.

A lot of people stopped at the top, probably because they didn't have enough information and didn't feel comfortable about voting.

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sighz (8.00 / 1)
I had higher expectations of this state. And no doubt, many people support same-sex marriage, but apparently, of those who voted, just as many oppose it. What next? As I've always said, I think we should eliminate marriage as a civil institution and only have civil unions. Or, we could pass a constituional amendment making discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal, and that would, by its later passage, override prop 8.

no way (0.00 / 0)
we'll win this fight.  I may take 6-10 years, but we'll win it.

If worst comes to worst, the U.S. Supreme Court will intervene on the issue just as it did with Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board.  

The problem with that is that it creates much more rightwing backlash when imposed by the judiciary than when done by the voters.  From now on, we put marriage equality on the ballot every two years until it passes.

And it WILL pass.


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I am disappointed too. (0.00 / 0)
A tarnish on an otherwise great night.

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saw this a lot in NV as well (0.00 / 0)
tons of people just knew they were voting Obama.  To its great credit, the Obama campaign had us handing out literature about Dina Titus and Jill Derby, and calling for them at night.  Every Obama voter I talked to, I talked about the congressional and state senate race.

And almost nobody knew anything about those races, despite a swarm of advertising.

Doesn't surprise me at all, frankly.


jjohnjj (0.00 / 0)
Anecdotal Agreement: My kid voted for the first time this year. She voted for Obama, No on 4, No on 8, and bailed on the rest... despite the Courage Campaign recommends that I emailed to her.

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