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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Numbers Still Have Ref. 71 Passing....

Posted by on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM

...but here's an alarming image:

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Joe Szilagyi 1
Thank God civil rights win by virtue of population density... so far.
Posted by Joe Szilagyi http://www.joeszilagyi.com on November 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
TheRain 2
I don't think that the 50 outstanding votes in Garfield County will tilt this thing.
Posted by TheRain on November 3, 2009 at 9:25 PM
3
Looks like Gregoire's victory in 2004 and we know how close that was. Only saving grace: We're winning Snohomish County. As Snohomish goes, so goes the rest of the state.
Posted by velvetsmog on November 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM
PedestrianMe 4
The green has neighborhoods and the yellow has strip malls.
Posted by PedestrianMe http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
kim in portland 5
Oh, Clark County. Why?!
Posted by kim in portland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/fast-paced_video_provides_a_fu.html on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
6
You're surprised that Eastern and Southern Washington is full of bigots?
Posted by Biff Bifferson on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Asparagus! 7
@6

Cosigned.
Posted by Asparagus! on November 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM
8
Thank God for (most of) Western Washington. C'mon Pierce County, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Posted by Nic in Greenlake on November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
9
This is pretty much how the state is always divided. There were huge posters for Dino Rossi last year in Spokane that said "Don't let Seattle steal this election!" That's how most of Eastern Washington feels.
Posted by aquaeous on November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
PedestrianMe 10
The green can neatly be annexed by Canada and the yellow wouldn't notice due to their lack of (non-biblical) geographical knowledge.
Posted by PedestrianMe http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com on November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Cracker Jack 11
@10: I'm sure they don't consider the residents of the green counties as "real Americans" anyway...
Posted by Cracker Jack on November 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
laterite 12
Oh, Whitman County, why you gotta let me down like that?
Posted by laterite on November 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Joe Szilagyi 13
@10 Except all their governments would dry up and die without our money, and that's a scientific fact.
Posted by Joe Szilagyi http://www.joeszilagyi.com on November 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
14
Please post % of vote in. Otherwise the numbers are not that helpful. Thanks and I hope we all win.
Posted by LarryLove on November 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM
bugwitch 15
It is not a fair and accurate assesment to look at the map in this way. Yes, it gives you a superficial perspective, but it is only superficial. By stepping up the Approve-71 campaign on the eastern part of the state, places which normally would have seen relatively low turnout by progressives has seen higher numbers.

I live in Kittitas county which isn't doing too well on the Equality and Common Sense issues on our ballot this year. HOWEVER, The additional 4,000 votes in this county to APPROVE R-71 is only going to help our cause.

If you add up all of those people who voted for approval who otherwise would have abstained, you will see that all of that yellow, isn't so red after all.
Posted by bugwitch on November 3, 2009 at 9:34 PM
john t 16
So that creepy vibe I get whenever I across the river into Clark County isn't just my imagination.
Posted by john t on November 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM
sidereal 17
Don't worry. Lentils still don't have the right to vote.
Posted by sidereal on November 3, 2009 at 9:43 PM
OutInBumF 18
Got that right @ 15!
I'm in Grant county, solidly 65-70% conservative all the way, every election, without fail. If R-71 gets even 35% Approval, it will be a big switch for this kind of issue.
My Faux News die-hard dad promised me he was going to vote to approve R-71, "because it's the fair and right thing to do for you/partner and others like you". Total shock.
Disappointing about Maine, tho. Nate Silver had that one going our way earlier today. What happened?
Posted by OutInBumF on November 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Pepper St. Tort Reform 19
I'm fucking ashamed of Eastern Washington - and I live here. I'm young, extremely progressive, and I vote - and I also happen to love living in a quiet, wide-open, beautiful place. This map makes me sick to my stomach. Thank god for Western Washington. Seriously - thanks, yall.
Posted by Pepper St. Tort Reform on November 3, 2009 at 10:07 PM
20
Yeah, this map contains almost no information. A useful map would show the gradients from green to yellow. if that were the case, most the state would probably be yellow green.
Posted by Kevin Erickson on November 3, 2009 at 10:10 PM
21
Clark County is choking full of mormons.
Posted by Spike Spiegel on November 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Steven Bradford 22
If you go to the Washington state website this map is from, you'll get a lot more useful information, by rolling the old mouse over the counties.

http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…

http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…
Posted by Steven Bradford http://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ on November 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
this guy I know in Spokane 23
@20 - you know you can go here (http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…) and view % results by county, right? It's not as good as a yellowish-greenish map, but it's something.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on November 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
OutInBumF 24
Ditto @19
My optimism was dashed re: Grant County on R-71. 29.07% Yes! Too many Mormons and born-agains. Were it not for the quiet and sunshine, I'd be back in Seattle in a heart-beat.
Thank you King County for voting for things that my bumfuck county will never approve. They'll all be bitching for the next week at those sinfilled, depraved Seattle voters, approving sin in the name of fairness.
Posted by OutInBumF on November 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Toasterhedgehog 25
San Juan is approving 71 at a higher rate than King County. I know where I'm taking my big gay 3 day weekend vacations.
Posted by Toasterhedgehog on November 3, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Max Solomon 26
way to go clallam, you enlightened hicks!
Posted by Max Solomon on November 3, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Max Solomon 27
way to go clallam, you enlightened hicks!
Posted by Max Solomon on November 3, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Max Solomon 28
way to double post you stupid hick!
Posted by Max Solomon on November 3, 2009 at 10:37 PM
this guy I know in Spokane 29
In 1996, when Washington had its republican primary or caucuses or whatever... Dole won Washington, but BUCHANAN won Spokane County. Just so you know.
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on November 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM
bugwitch 30
@29
And knowing is half the battle...
Posted by bugwitch on November 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM
31
This map serves no purpose. Most of the counties are running are running close to a 50-50 split. Those "eerie feelings" you feel when crossing into a "yellow" county is your own prejuidicial bias. hopefully it passes, but this map is misleading and inaccurate without total count.
Posted by John B2 on November 3, 2009 at 11:35 PM
32
Nothing brings me more pleasure than the fact that the whole of rural Washington is politically held hostage, basically by the liberal Puget Sound area's massive population advantage. OK, there's one thing that brings me more pleasure: knowing how much they hate it but can't do diddly squat about it. Yay!
Posted by JenV on November 4, 2009 at 12:03 AM
33
I was just dieing to know: if all of the estimated votes left to count came out the same as the votes already counted, what would be the result?

After a bunch of typing numbers into a spreadsheet, resounding good news. Since King county is so big and so bad at counting votes quickly, the margin in favor goes from 22 thou to _46_ thou.

Yeah, it will vary as ballots come dribbling in, but I feel good. Beats watching the night get worse bit by bit in Maine.
Posted by spudbeach on November 4, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Will in Seattle 34
Pierce County for the dickwad award.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on November 4, 2009 at 12:43 AM
35
why can't we let idaho have the yellow? they'd probably like it.
Posted by Judith on November 4, 2009 at 2:01 AM
36
My only question is, why is post 10 before 9?
Posted by sall on November 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM
onion 37
Rolling over counties on the original web page IS revealing. the margin in Pierce county is actually quite narrow, and the really frightening part of the state is the southeast. Garfield county anyone?
Posted by onion on November 4, 2009 at 7:59 AM
38
#21 - Can we set mormon traps and then release them into a better habitat for them?
(Utah)
Same goes for the Ken Hutcherson crowd. Ken can burn in hell for that Limbaugh ass licking piece he wrote recently.
Posted by BBCaddict on November 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM
39
They need to let the cows vote in Garfield and Asotin counties - really.

Good quote - "Oh, all the places that do not matter" - well said dear friend.

Our GLBT friendly King County must fuck with their heads completely. I do drink their wine and eat their lentils and wheat and peas.

Victory. Wow. Wow.

Posted by Clyde Ronson on November 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM
40
bummer for good Christian values
Posted by that1chick on November 4, 2009 at 8:56 AM
br@d 41
Wow, pretty disappointed in Spokane County, but REALLY disappointed in Pierce County. My mom called me at work from Tacoma about a week ago saying she was confused and did she want to approve or reject 71? She's a smart lady. Wonder if the ballot confusion worked for or against us.
Posted by br@d on November 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM
42
Maybe it's time to launch a buycott in E WA! Our community should only support those businesses that openly support GLBT issues! MONEY TALKS!!!!!!
Posted by MichaelM on November 4, 2009 at 9:27 AM
43
I am a supporter of CIVIL UNIONS. Take the church out of state policy. Go to your own church and have a union, or just go to the courthouse. Jesus works in mysterious ways. He is my gardner from Mexico. He works shirtless in the summer. I love Jesus.
Posted by Jason Williams on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM
44
Seattle and King County is THE population center. Although I grew up in Snohomish, I'm in King County and IMHO, in terms of where the population is most dense, so goes the rest of the state. King County is in fact the bellweather here.
Posted by CSM on November 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM
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Totally embarrassed by Pierce County right now. College students not voting? Lots of conservative military folks? At least 47% of us tried...
Posted by Fraggle on November 4, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Steven Bradford 47
If you had told someone in 1994 that 47% of voters in Pierce county would in 15 years vote in favor of a full marriage rights domestic partnerships law, they would have asked you for the name of your dealer, because you obviously had access to some very good hallucinogens.
Posted by Steven Bradford http://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ on November 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM
48
Praying that equality wins over bigotry!
Posted by Jodi on November 5, 2009 at 6:22 AM

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