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Election The Numbers Still Have Ref. 71 Passing....
Posted by Stranger Election Control Board on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM
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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.
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Thank God for (most of) Western Washington. C'mon Pierce County, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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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.
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The green can neatly be annexed by Canada and the yellow wouldn't notice due to their lack of (non-biblical) geographical knowledge.
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@10: I'm sure they don't consider the residents of the green counties as "real Americans" anyway...
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@10 Except all their governments would dry up and die without our money, and that's a scientific fact.
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Please post % of vote in. Otherwise the numbers are not that helpful. Thanks and I hope we all win.
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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.
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.
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So that creepy vibe I get whenever I across the river into Clark County isn't just my imagination.
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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?
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?
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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.
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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.
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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…
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…
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@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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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In 1996, when Washington had its republican primary or caucuses or whatever... Dole won Washington, but BUCHANAN won Spokane County. Just so you know.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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.
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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?
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#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.
(Utah)
Same goes for the Ken Hutcherson crowd. Ken can burn in hell for that Limbaugh ass licking piece he wrote recently.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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!!!!!!
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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