California Recall Live Thread

[Sabertooth]

Do it California. Post here.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Bookmarking Bump!

[Weimdog]

You make great points.

I went to the no on 53 website. Their position is that there will be less money for education (which already gets 40% of the state budget by mandate) and healthcare.

I tend to agree with you. Oh well.

Either way, I think this proposition will pass. When voters see propositions that require spending, they usually vote for it.

[Lady Heron]

No it is not. It is a vote to recall Davis, and a vote for McClintok. You at least get yes on recall so grow up.

[GOPrincess]

"...I think the recall question should have had its own page."

Yep, Page 1, just like if you have a stack of punch cards, then you turn the page to vote for the candidates.

[Cboldt]

The law says "majority of voters." What you are saying is that a person who punches neither "yes" nor "no" is not a voter for the purpose of deciding the recall question. I'm fine with that (prefer it in fact), but other than your comment, haven't seen a definitive statement as to how this question on the ballot will be counted.

The law says "majority of voters," and a person can, with a straight face, say the 101,000 people who punched neither "yes" nor "no" is a voter.

[bootyist-monk]

Yes
Arnold
No
Yes

Nothing dimpled, hanging or pregnant.

[per loin]

I just saw Aslee Banfield, or whatever her name is, interviewing Bustamente. She all but insisted that the absentee ballots be challenged because those folks voted before the LA Times dropped its stink bomb.

[dogbyte12]

I am trying to understand this correctly. Assume there are 100 voters who vote on Question 2. However, 49 vote for the recall, 48 vote no, and 3 don't vote at all.

In this scenario, a majority of people who voted on the question voted for the recall, but a majority of people who voted didn't. Does the recall pass or not?

[Sabertooth]

Their ads also cite Bustamente as a supporter of 53, that was all I needed to vote NO

At the big recall debate in Sacramento, both Schwarzenegger and McClintock also were in favor of #53. An interesting stat that came out during the debate... under Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, infrastructure spending was at 20% of budget. Now it's 1% or less. #53 puts it at 3%.

Infrastructure is one of the legitimate functions of state government, but the politicians play games by starving the legitimate functions in favor of social services. Why do you think we're always voting on bonds for police, fire, schools, and roads?

Because bonds for social handouts would always fail.

[BurbankKarl]

I was at Starbucks this morning, and all of the baristas had voted...a couple voted for some of the lesser known candidates, but YES on recall.

It will be a record turnout

[goldstategop]

Sorry but I voted for Arnold. Hey, I like to hear the lamentations of liberals! ;-)

[sissyjane]

When will the exit polls start coming in? Anybody heard anything yet?? On pins and needles out here in Ca.

[GOPrincess]

"She all but insisted that the absentee ballots be challenged because those folks voted before the LA Times dropped its stink bomb."

Good grief.

[Cboldt]

That the gist of my question. How are non-votes to the Yes/No question handled. Is the contest just between Yes chads and No chads, or is the contest between Yes chads and every other ballot?

[GOPrincess]

Seems like the last couple of elections, Drudge started to leak the first exit polls around 2-3:00...

[Tree of Liberty]

In your scenario, I believe it does. For the recall to pass, it needs 50%+1 of those who cast a ballot on the question

[William McKinley]

Should have stayed with my first impression then, that #53 sounded ok. Good thing I didn't vote against it :-)

[IronKros]

Funny how the shenanigans of one state can capture attention of a whole country. To bad it didn't happen in Texas with the runaway democrats.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Now we just need to find out who can answer that. Sean Hannity is on now, I wonder if his staffers can research it and get back to us. Anyone have the back-channels to get this to Sean?