Normally a strong Republican county, in the presidential race 52 percent of the county vote in San Bernardino went to Obama. Yet Prop 8 passed with 67 percent of the vote. Johnson discusses San Bernardino County’s changing political landscape in Ryan Orr’s article in the Victorville Daily Press: “’I think what that shows is that… Continue Reading
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Orange County stays strongly Yes on 11
Tuesday 10pm update: Orange County reports in with 135,939 newly counted ballots: 55.8% Yes, 44.2% No. As with the last batch of ballots from LA County, the late ballots favor Yes even more than the same-day ballots did (Orange County was 55.2% Yes on 11 prior to this update). The Yes on 11 margin is now… Continue Reading
Tuesday Evening brings very good news for Yes on 11
Thursday evening’s 7:08pm update reported 137,948 new votes. Of those, 16.1% were blank on Prop 11. Of the remainder, 51.2% were Yes on 11 and 48.8% were No on 11. The Yes on 11 margin increased to 138,556, though the split remained 50.7% Yes and 49.3% No. Here is the key news: all 137,948 new… Continue Reading
Another update, Another 5,000 Yes votes
The Tuesday 4:08pm update held good news for Prop 11 supporters: another 88,733 ballots counted, with  53.1% Yes, 46.9% No (12.3% blank). The Yes margin is now up almost 5,000 votes compared to the 1pm update: 135,693. Yes 5,084,628, or 50.7%, to No 4,948,935, or 49.3%. The number of ballots left to count has not been… Continue Reading
No on 11 keeps its hopes alive
Monday’s 1:05 pm vote count update showed the No on 11 campaign is not dead yet: 48,865 new ballots counted, with 38.4% Yes and 61.6% No (excluding the 15.4% of ballots that were blank on Prop 11). The Yes margin remains 130,822, and the odds remain in their favor. Proponents need 46.7% of the remaining… Continue Reading
Monday evening brings a significant boost for Prop 11
Good news for election watchers: Trinity County finally reported its left-to-count ballots figure! All 58 counties have now reported their numbers, though they continue to revise them. The number of uncounted ballots statewide just dropped from 2.7 to 2.1 million. More significantly, the 7:05 pm Monday update was only the 2nd update since Wednesday to… Continue Reading
Drip, Drip: Vote count remains slow
The Yes margin for Proposition 11 is back up to 128,632, as of today’s 4:10 pm update. 20,448 new votes were counted, and they went 54.0% Yes and 46.0% No. The number of ballots leaving the Prop 11 line blank went down, but remains 9.5% of this latest batch. Lake County finally reported its uncounted… Continue Reading
Prop 11 Margin shrinks a little more
The state continues to creep ahead in counting ballots, with another 35,000 votes reported this morning (Monday, 11/10, 10:10am update). As with the latest report Saturday, Yes votes trailed No votes in the latest batch, 47.2% Yes to 52.8% No. Fourteen percent of the new ballots contained no vote on the Prop 11 question. The… Continue Reading
First small setback for Prop 11 supporters
Saturday, November 8th, 7:09 pm update: This is our first update where Prop 11’s margin went down, as 26,907 new votes were counted and they split 38.8% Yes and 61.2% No (15.5% of them were blank on Prop 11). Prop 11’s overall vote remains 50.7% Yes, 49.3% No, and its margin remains 128,876 — 30,000… Continue Reading
Prop 11 margin continues to tick upward
In the 10:05am Saturday update, the Yes margin for Prop 11 increased from 131,159 to 133,952. With a lot of ballots still to count (2.74 million) this is not over, but it looks a little better for Prop 11 supporters every day. Saturday’s update counted 28,679 ballots. Only 9.9% were blank — the lowest percent… Continue Reading