Oh yeah, I did my research on the FL SCJ's, talked to friends and family and NO ONE I talked to said they WOULD vote to keep them in office. Yet, they were re-elected by a wide margin. It makes No sense to me.
"Who, but the hopelessly ignorant, wouldn't agree with that."
How about those who don't want to act like a liberal. Murder is murder.
I agree with your statement that most here in Florida are hopelessly ignorant.
I also voted against retention of them all. And I did and do want to stone them all in a public square.
Part of that is true.
Here in Indy we had retention of judges on the ballot. And while I'm sure there was some sort of write-up in the Star about them, I missed it with all the other election drivel they ran. So, even though I didn't know a thing about them; based upon the judicial activism we've seen (nationally) in the past; I voted NOT to retain them.
They were probably retained. Our ballots, optical scanner SAT type, had a straight party ticket option, and then you could vote for an opposing party for specific offices if desired, but it was two sided. Judges were a separate thing altogether on the back. I suppose that a lot of folks, especially the elderly, only chose to vote a straight party ticket, and didn't bother to look on the back (I think all ballots options should all be on the same side of the paper). So I would guess that a no vote would be a vote to retain. Quite sneaky if you ask me. The option should be a binary yea, or nay.