Terminated
All the news agencies are officially calling the
recall passed and predicting Ahnold the winner. Unless there's some sort of
miracle, you can put a fork in Grayout, because he's done. With 12% of the
votes counted, 56% of voters have come out in favor of the recall and 54% for
Ahnold. I don't know how that will hold up state wide, but I for one am really
surprised. If the terminator can win an outright majority of votes, he will
definitely be in the drivers seat when he takes up residence in Sacramento.
Let's just hope he doesn't take too many left turns. I figured the recall was
in good shape when early exit polling showed Ahnold with a 54% favorability
rating to Davis paltry 20 something. Even Bustamante couldn't pull more than
the mid 30's in favorability.
Switching to the proposition front, it looks like prop 54, the racial privacy initiative will go down in flames. I guess I'm not surprised because I think most people hadn't heard much about this one, or only heard negative things. I don't see it as a huge loss, because it wasn't likely to have the substantial effect that 209, which ended state sponsored affirmative action, did. I don't like losing this one, but it there wasn't a lot on the line.
On a brighter note, prop 69 looks like it is well on the way to passing. Given the strong support for the recall I guess it isn't all that surprising that a ballot initiative that would require the current governor's head to be repeatedly dunked in a flushing toilet by a burly movie star until he "cries like a woman" would pass by a substantial margin. Unfortunately it seems likely that this initiative will be overturned by the infamous 9th circuit on constitutional grounds. Lawyers claim that the particular language "cries like a woman" is discriminatory. The challenge came too late for supporters to change the offending phrase on the ballot to "cries like a cowardly, week willed person of any gender, race or creed", so we may not be treated to a Gray Davis swirly after all. Once again the it appears that tyrannical courts will thwart the democratic will of the people.
Switching to the proposition front, it looks like prop 54, the racial privacy initiative will go down in flames. I guess I'm not surprised because I think most people hadn't heard much about this one, or only heard negative things. I don't see it as a huge loss, because it wasn't likely to have the substantial effect that 209, which ended state sponsored affirmative action, did. I don't like losing this one, but it there wasn't a lot on the line.
On a brighter note, prop 69 looks like it is well on the way to passing. Given the strong support for the recall I guess it isn't all that surprising that a ballot initiative that would require the current governor's head to be repeatedly dunked in a flushing toilet by a burly movie star until he "cries like a woman" would pass by a substantial margin. Unfortunately it seems likely that this initiative will be overturned by the infamous 9th circuit on constitutional grounds. Lawyers claim that the particular language "cries like a woman" is discriminatory. The challenge came too late for supporters to change the offending phrase on the ballot to "cries like a cowardly, week willed person of any gender, race or creed", so we may not be treated to a Gray Davis swirly after all. Once again the it appears that tyrannical courts will thwart the democratic will of the people.
Posted: Tue - October 7, 2003 at 09:24 PM
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