I’m poking around some of the stats on various initiatives around the country. A few interesting ones to me:
- California Measure 8 (same-sex marriage ban) has been called to pass. (Note to same-gender couples, Connecticut would now love to host your weddings.)
- California Measure 11 (redistricting reform) has also been called to pass. That could make 2012 a very interesting election on the west coast.
- Florida Measure 2 (same-sex marriage ban) also is expected to pass, as is Arizona Measure 102 (same topic), and Arkansas Amendment 2 (prohibit same-sex couples from adopting). While we are going to have a non-white President, it looks like bigotry still reigns.
- Looks like Arkansas will be getting a state lottery, with Amendment 3 passing.
- Constitutional Convention calls failed in Connecticut and Illinois
- Maryland gets early voting with passage of Measure 1. (Wish we had it in Connecticut; it would have been easier to get if our ConCon question had passed.)
- Massachusetts voted to keep its income tax, decriminalize marijuana, and to free the greyhounds with its three ballot measures.
- Michigan joins the list of states which would permit medical marijuana use but for the federal ban, with Measure 1 being approved.
- Looks like Oregon’s redistricting measure (55) passes, but Oregonians apparently don’t share my dislike of closed primaries and have voted against Measure 65.
- South Dakota is voting down its proposed ban on abortions (Measure 11).
