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Ballot Watch: West Coast

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8 months ago
by Michael Weiss in

This is Bal­lot Watch. Today is the sev­enth in the series of arti­cles on the upcom­ing bal­lot ini­tia­tives and some key local elec­tions. Some of these will cover top­ics in com­mon with mul­ti­ple states, while oth­ers will look at a state level.

For today’s Bal­lot Watch, I’m cov­er­ing the West Coast…and Ari­zona and Nevada. Why Ari­zona and Nevada? In try­ing to bal­ance the regions some­what so that all three of Log­a­rchism’s reg­u­lar writ­ers get a fair share of the coun­try, the states touch­ing the Pacific Ocean weren’t quite enough. And so Ari­zona and Nevada are in the mix.

So what do the bal­lots look like in these seven states? Noth­ing of inter­est in Alaska or Hawaii, but the other five have tales to tell.  (more…)

Primary Preview: Washington Caucus

15
1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

Today marks a small mile­stone in the Repub­li­can race for the Pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion. Wash­ing­ton State has the lone vote between for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts Gov­er­nor Mitt Romney’s vic­to­ries in Ari­zona and Michi­gan, and the ten-​​state Super Tuesday.

Wash­ing­ton has a mere 43 del­e­gates at stake in today’s non­bind­ing cau­cuses, which are con­ducted from 10:00am until noon, Pacific Stan­dard Time. The real story will be the momen­tum going into Super Tues­day. (more…)

Yesterday’s Important Votes

20
1 year ago
by Monotreme in

Yes­ter­day, Michael posted up a list of impor­tant bal­lot ini­tia­tives and elec­tions to watch. Today, let’s recap what we know as of this writ­ing (2 am EST) and what’s still out there.

Sixty/​forty splits were the order of the day, with many ini­tia­tives being decided by that mar­gin. Only a cou­ple of races are close: a Wash­ing­ton state trans­porta­tion tax ini­tia­tive and con­trol of the Vir­ginia State Sen­ate. We will be watch­ing those through the day Wednes­day, but the Vir­ginia race in par­tic­u­lar may not be decided for a week or more.

The title color indi­cates my best guess of whether the results favor the left (blue), the right (red), or neither/​mixed (gray).

 

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Today’s Important Votes

17
1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

Three weeks ago, I gave a run­down of the items on the bal­lot in the var­i­ous states this year. Today is elec­tion day for most of those states. I’ve pared every­thing down to the ones that are most impor­tant to watch today. (more…)

Post Your Hoc

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2 years ago
by Monotreme in

Time for the req­ui­site “morn­ing after” analysis.

Okay, Wednes­day morn­ing quar­ter­backs, where do we stand with yesterday’s elec­tion results? (And, where are we with the still-​​ongoing races in CO-​​SEN, WA-​​SEN, and AK-​​SEN, among others?)

What were your favorite and least-​​favorite things from yesterday’s elec­tion? What are your pre­dic­tions for the future?

I’ll kick things off with my nom­i­na­tion for the “Cap­tur­ing the Zeit­geist” award:

The Haz­ards of Exit Polling

Some back­ground to the above: we are a community-​​based four-​​year col­lege that does a lot of retrain­ing of work­ing peo­ple, giv­ing them the skills they need to upgrade their job. The stu­dent in ques­tion is pretty typ­i­cal for us, some­one who had one kind of job and is retrain­ing for another. Clearly, not every­thing is as it seems.

Ecce Tea Party!

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