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Election Re: The Numbers Still Have Ref. 71 Passing....
Posted by Stranger Election Control Board on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Compare the R-71 county results map with this one for I-1033:
So.. what do we make of this? All counties that think the gays are a-ok are also smart enough to realize that paying taxes is sometimes useful. But there are plenty of counties where they're smart about teh tax policy, but still a little skeeved out by teh gays.
Washington, you're weird. And Pierce County? WHAT THE FUCK? Jerks.
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If Tim Eyman had loudly endorsed "No on 71" it would probably be going down by a wider margin, too. ;)
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The bigger mystery, for me, is why Wahkiakum County even exists. It's tiny, it's empty, it has only one town, microscopic Cathlamet (pop. 585). More people live in Pike/Pine than Wahkiakum. If it was in Eastern Washington, I'd almost understand, but Westside? Why? What for?
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Don't smackdown Pierce quite yet. They've only counted 15% of the vote. Wait until they report more results at 10:30. If R71 is still losing then, it's open season on those yahoos.
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Pierce country is filled with military trash (formerly known as welfare trash, although there's still plenty of that left there as well) It's Seattle's housing project.
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I'm confused. Did these 428,354 yeses on I-1033 voters read any of the dozens of op-ed pieces imploring voters to vote no? Comparisons to Colorado? Or did they just see "lower taxes" and vote yes?
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The other result that caught my attention is Pacific County almost passing R71. With 49% of the vote counted it's only losing by 131 votes.
Maybe it's because Pacific has the highest percentage of seniors of any county in the state -- they must have been paying attention to the provision of the domestic partnership legislation that helps them.
Maybe it's because Pacific has the highest percentage of seniors of any county in the state -- they must have been paying attention to the provision of the domestic partnership legislation that helps them.
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Cathlamet only has 585 people? Well, at least they have a liquor store. It's the small things, really...
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For Pierce County, you have to consider the oddles of "I've got mine" folks and their big churches in Gig Harbor, Puyallup/South Hill/Sumner/Bonney Lake/exurbs, plus the military.
In Tacoma, there's no pro-1033 signs or anything that I've seen, and just a handful of no-71 signs (not to stereotype, but they're mostly in a heavily Soviet-bloc-immigrant area, with Tacoma's slavic/Russian community being pretty vocal on the anti-gay tip)
Actually drove past a small-but-significant pro-71 sign holding group, looked like a lot of teenagers/early 20s folks, right by the Tacoma Mall this afternoon. It was nice. Didn't drive too much around Tacoma today, but they're the only group I saw out holding signs.
In Tacoma, there's no pro-1033 signs or anything that I've seen, and just a handful of no-71 signs (not to stereotype, but they're mostly in a heavily Soviet-bloc-immigrant area, with Tacoma's slavic/Russian community being pretty vocal on the anti-gay tip)
Actually drove past a small-but-significant pro-71 sign holding group, looked like a lot of teenagers/early 20s folks, right by the Tacoma Mall this afternoon. It was nice. Didn't drive too much around Tacoma today, but they're the only group I saw out holding signs.
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I'm more WTF over the 23% voter turnout in King County. 23%? seriously, that's the best we can do? It's by fucking mail for fuck's sake! You scribble on it and you put it in the mailbox, how fucking hard is that? The only ones below us is Pierce, at 15%. I guess they have very active bigots.
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/VoterTu…
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/VoterTu…
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that's bad labeling: it's not 23% turnout, it's 23% counted so far. it doesn't include ballots not yet received or processed.
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On Wikipedia, I learned Wahkiakum County went for Obama by a margin of 16 votes. I thought that was interesting.
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I'd have to do a little research to actually back this up with links, but I'm pretty sure most of the counties that voted no on I-1033 actually pay more in taxes than they get back, whereas most of the counties that voted yes on I-1033 get back more in taxes than they pay in. In other words, the counties that want to limit taxes are the ones that benefit the most from them. Eastern Washington and the rural counties swear up and down that this isn't true, because this reality of welfare queendom is totally at odds with their fantasies of western self-reliance; they'll tell you over and over that they "pay too much in taxes" and "all the money goes to the big cities" but their narrow-minded American Dream is subsidized by wide shoulders of the populous counties on the Sound.
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my guess on wahkiakum is that when it was created it was mostly natives, so maybe a proto-reservation. until whitey bought it for $7000. should be absorbed.
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