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News How They Voted on R-71 and I-1033
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:30 PM
The Secretary of State's office released a breakdown of votes for statewide ballots on the November ballot. Overall, Referendum 71 passed, thereby upholding the domestic-partnership expansion bill, and Initiative 1033 failed, thereby preventing Tim Eyman from decimating the state budget forever. The office's spokesman David Ammons sheds some light on where the measures fared best and worst:
We see, for instance, that R-71 passed in six of the nine congressional districts — 1, 2,6, 7, 8, and 9, including landslides in Seattle-area districts. The two Eastern Washington districts, 4 and 5, rejected the measure, as did the 3rd, a political swing district in Southwest Washington that will have an open congressional seat in 2010.I-1033, which lost by 16 points statewide, narrowly carried the 3rd and 4th districts, but lost elsewhere, including the reliably conservative 5th.
One interesting point: The 43rd District in Seattle, the progressive bastion from Capitol Hill to the University District, passed R-71 by a 10-to-one margin. It was approved 42,641 to 4,271 votes. But who in the liberal 43rd—the district swimming with gay people who join in every community activity, drop off their kids at school, work as doctors and nurses, etc.—don't want gay couples to have equal rights? Well, precinct data show that the measure didn't do so well in Broadmoor, the gated community off Madison Park, where R-71 passed only by 235 votes to 147 votes. That's still passing widely, but it's like another district, a conservative holdout, behind that gate.
Broadmoor voters also (yes, I'm obsessed) approved of Robert Rosencrantz over Mike O'Brien by a margin of two to one; gave the thumbs up to Jessie Israel over Nick Licata by two to one; favored Tom Carr over Pete Holmes by 180 votes to 120 votes; Susan Hutchison over Dow Constantine by 233 to 150 votes; and where they lost hardest was in the mayor's race—where Broadmoor voted for Joe Mallahan by a six-to-one margin over Mike McGinn, 319 votes to 50.
The numbers on the ballot measures are broken down by legislative district (.pdf) and congressional district (.pdf).
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Plus, bonus points, if there was a fire there we could just sit outside and watch it burn.
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Gay people still have a giant vote in the 43rd, and as they mobilized they pulled friends, neighbors and so forth with them.
Political result is rarely accidental. More like hard grass roots stuff.
Smart media, with Charlene Strong telling her story is the other key - oh wait, she is a Lesbian.... well now, take a look. LGBT folks talking about the reality of their lives can change opinion.
By the way she talked about the woman she loved who was dying. Not sterile blab blab - ie. the path to save money on taxes .... that is the message that will work, love. Our proud totally sincere love for one another. The rest is un convincing shit and shinola.
The always losing the marriage votes national folks should take a look and learn from Washington.
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