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Pardon me for posting this; I don’t know where else to post this. I don’t live in RI, but I’ve been curious about this question because I’m a geography buff.
I hope Rhode-Islanders don’t change the official name. As a little kid I was always confused by the name “Rhode Island”, because the state is not an island. It was later on that I learned that the full name was “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, the “Rhode Island” is actually an island in the state’s bay, and “Providence Plantations” is the mainland part. From then on the state made sense to me. 🙂 So again I hope they don’t change the name. “Rhode Island” all by itself would be geographically incorrect. More importantly, though, the reason for dropping “Plantations” is absurd. Because some people out there ignorantly think “Plantations” implies slavery? That’s their problem, not the state’s. That’s as ridiculous as thinking that the word “niggardly” has a racist overtone just because of how it sounds.
at Sink for Governor in Tampa.
Few problems in Florida generally – fewer than in ’08.
Reasonably good turnout.
There is an issue about exit pollsters being too close to the voters…
At the Vons around the corner from my house. And we voted near the wine and spirits department! (And not too many feet away from the slot machines, as well.)
And if you really want to know how I voted… Well, see for yourself! 😉
For:
Quinn
Giannoulias
Rep. Danny Davis
Lisa Madigan- I should have been voting for her for Senate, not AG
Jesse White
Robin Kelly
Judy Baar Topinka- My one Republican vote (running for Comptroller)
Against:
An amendment to the Illinois Constitution allowing people to recall the governor. (This needs 60 percent to pass, I’m hoping it won’t get there).
I early voted about a two weeks ago and iwas probably the only one under 50 in the polls.
For school. I requested an absentee ballot, but it never arrived at my current place of residence.
However, I did ask my grandmother, who hasn’t voted in 10 years, to vote for me. Voted for Sestak, Onorato, Michael Pipe (probably one of only 10 votes for poor Pipe) and my Republican vote, State Rep. Matt Gabler.
My first time voting (I’m 19). I live in IL-13 (Naperville) (and go to school in NC-04 (Durham)).
I was back for fall break right as early voting started, so I dragged my parents to the voting booth.
Voted for:
Giannoulias (twice)
Quinn
Harper
and straight Dems for the rest of the ballot. A lot of local elections had only Republicans so I left those blank. Mostly voted for Judicial Retentions. Yes on municipal term limits and Yes on bonds for College of Dupage.
The lines were….very small…as can be expected for the first day of early voting in mid-afternoon. My dad was happy though, because of the 6 people we saw he guess all of them were “Democrats” (the 3 of us who are Indian-Americans, a black couple and a union looking guy).
As for back in NC-04, Duke finally decided to provide a shuttle service for students to go to the polls today. Duke Democrats have been taking students to vote early, but the early voter turnout has been pathetic. Duke College Republicans haven’t been engaging the student body at all, just phonebanking. There was actually a funny article (not really that funny) about how Duke College Republicans don’t want Duke students to vote because that’s going to hurt them. Student Affairs sent out a blast email telling us to vote, which was good. I expect people to go vote. I’ve basically gotten the absentee ballots for quite a number of my friends – voting in OH, PA, WA, etc.
I’m really glad that Facebook is getting out the vote. I hope that helps with youth turnout. 23 million so far, but I bet that number is fairly inflated.
There was a steady stream of people of all ages. It was the easiest 10 minutes of my life! I votes straight ticket ofcourse and against the constitutional amendment to cap property taxes.
Voted early in my 44th ward Early Voting center.
Quinn for gov, Alexi for Senate (twice, no less), Quiglet for Congress.
White for SoS, Kelly for Treasurer, and Madigan for AG.
Did vote for my first Republican, Judy Baar Topinka for Comptroller…
Most importantly, Forrest Claypool for Cook County Auditor, and not that dbag Joe Berrios.
All Democrats
Barbara Boxer, Senate
Jerry Brown, Governor
Gavin Newsom, Lt. Governor
Kamala Harris, Atty. General
Debra Bowen, Secretary of State
Bill Lockyer, Treasurer
John Chiang, Controller
Dave Jones, Insurance Commissioner
Tim Allison, US House, CA-24
Ferial Masry, Assembly, AD-37
About 20-25 people in line with me when polls opened.
No early voting in SC. 2008 had longer lines, but that is to be expected.
142,000 have voted absentee which compares to 76,000 in 2006. With a few days still left, Richland County (3rd in population) was the leader by far in absentee voting. I am hoping that is a good sign as it is a very blue county. Charleston, which is purple, was second in absentee votes (it is 2nd in population). My very red home county of Greenville was third in absentee, yet is 1st in population.
I can’t pin it on anything, but I have a feeling things are not going to be as horrific for Democrats as many have predicted.
Not much to vote for in NJ-12, but for me it was:
Sipprelle (R) for U.S. House
Republicans for County Freeholders
Republican incumbent for County Sheriff
Republican and Democrat Incumbents for Township Committee
Yes on Ballot Question
53 Senate seats, less than 55 GOP house pick-ups Sink and Strickland win Governorships and Perriello pulls out a come from behind win and I’ll be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning.
at my desk. Dems up and down the ballot in PA.
cos voting any other way means you side with the terrorists and Satan.
Voted for as many Carnahans as were on the ballot (this is one of the first things a young Democrat learns to do in Missouri), spent way too much time trying to figure out the judges as always.
We never talk about ballot questions/propositions around here, but anyone who wants an insight into the occasional weirdness of local power politics should meditate on the wording of MO’s Amendment 1:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to require the office of county assessor to be an elected position in all counties with a charter form of government, except counties with a population between 600,001-699,999?
I’m pretty certain I’ll end up on the losing side of both Propositions–I was against undercutting the tax base of St. Louis and KC, and for cracking down on puppy mills. Ugh.
http://www.mcall.com/news/brea…
Maybe someone from the area can say if this sounds positive.
Jerry Brown (GOV)
Barbara Boxer (SEN)
Gavin Newsom (LT. GOV)
Russ Warner (CA-26)
Debra Bowen (SoS)
John Chiang (Controller)
Kit Crittenden (Treasurer) Green Party
Kamala Harris (Attorney General) Not happy
Dave Jones (Insurance Commissioner)
YES (19)
YES (20)
YES (21)
NO (22)
HELL NO (23)
YES (24)
YES (25)
NO (26)
NO (27)
I voted this morning; decent crowds, actually. I voted for all GOP with one exception; I refused to vote for Pam Bondi because I have no respect or use for people who steal dogs from other people. I am also in favor of gay adoption, so Dan Gelber got my vote. I just think the red tide is going to wash in the toxic Bondi, but not with my vote at least.
For Boxer, Brown, and all other Dems including the hopeless sacrificial lambs offered up to Duncan Hunter and the Republican state legislators in this staunchly Rethug area of San Diego. For state props. 19, 21, 24, 25, and 27; against 20, 22, 23, and 26.
Governor: Andrew Cuomo (D)
U.S. Senate – A: Chuck Schumer (D)
U.S. Senate – B: Joe DioGuardi (R)
U.S. House: George Phillips (R)
Comptroller: Harry Wilson (R)
Attorney General: Dan Donovan (R)
Assembly: Peter Rooney (R)
State Senate: John Bonacic (R)
Oddly enough, more people had voted in my district polling place as of 7:45 AM this morning than at the same time in 2006 (36 this morning vs. 24 in 2006).
Biggest worry is the weather: it just started dripping and is likely to get much worse. Preparing to sacrifice myself to protect the canvasing packet.
There was no line the night I went, which I was trying to avoid since I commute 45 miles each way (generally by train) to work. If I don’t leave before the polls open I face a nasty and slow rush hour slog, but I risk missing the closing time if I wait until the evening.
I’m glad Maryland has Early Voting now. The Republicans, interestingly enough, fought it tooth and nail.
There was only one other person voting when I was there. Voted straight Dem which includes Corroon for gov, Granato for Sen, and Matheson for house. Had a little glitch with the computer when my ballot didnt want to print had to wait a few minutes while a poll worker fixed it. First time I was asked to participate in an exit poll. Is it weird that I found that exciting?
Voter turnout around Cincinnati “typical” for midterm–i.e. no right wing surge. Voter turnout in Columbus area “moderate”–i.e. larger than normal. That could be good or could be bad, depending on where that Columbus vote is coming from.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is expecting 52% turnout, which would be one percent lower than 2006. That’s not bad, assuming that the votes are coming from where we want them to be coming from!
Straight Dem. Go Kuster!
Saw more people in my polling place than I’ve ever seen including 2008. The crowd was mostly senior citizens. Saw three union people outside giving out lit for McMahon.
Voted mostly Democratic but did throw a vote for Donovan since he’s from Staten Island and I strongly disagree with Schneideman wanting to use his office to oppose nuclear power which I support. Voted against both ballot questions because I don’t trust anything written by Bloomberg lackies.
Was very tempted to vote for McMillen of the Rent is too Damn High Party. Love the beard. 😀
is the only area currently with many voting problems apparently
No other way to do it. Not exaxt ballot order, but here it goes; Voted:
Governor: Virg Bernero (D)
House of Representatives: Don Cooney (D)
State House: Thomas Batten (Nice guy, great resume, but the very definition of a sacrificial lamb. Democrats, why can’t you get your shit together in friggin’ Kalamazoo County!)
State Senate: Wrote in Bobby Hopewell (D) (Rest in peace Bob Jones). Ballot sent out before changes could be made, but after Democrats announced change, for those wondering.
Attorney General: David Leyton (D)
SOS: Jocelyn Benson (D)
Supreme Court: Alton Davis and Denise Langford Morris
District Commissioner: Some dudette (D). Sorry, it may be Kalamazoo County, but Texas Township is going to vote for a Democrat not named Carl Levin when Oklahoma sends any entirely Green Party delegation to Congress in 2010.
Board of Regents for Universities: Hate that we vote on these, but straight line Democrat.
Judges and stuff: No one who wasn’t an incumbent on the ballot except for Supreme Court, voted yes.
Proposition 1: Reluctant No
Proposition 2: Sort of remorseful Yes (But it’s Michigan, you can never be sure)
Looked like pretty decent turnout, every poll worker was busy doing something when I arrived.
Voted straight Democrat except for Governor and state assembly.
Decided to vote Green because I don’t trust Cuomo and I want the greens to have a ballot line.
I voted Independence party for Assembly because the incumbent Democratic assemblywoman lost her primary but was still on the ballot. We’re probably going to split the vote anyway there, so might as well vote for someone you know and respect.
Sink
Crist
Boyd
Rest is straight Dem of course.
I rly hope Sink wins and by some miracle Crist wins.
Other than that, Dan Gelber would be an amazing AG. And I’d love to see Adam Putnam lose and end his political career.
No lines but it was early. I hope turnout surge carries us to wins.
In the Philadelphia suburbs. There were only two incumbents on my ballot, my Democratic state representative and Republican state senator.
Governor: Dan Onorato
Senate: Joe Sestak
Congress: Bryan Lentz
State Senate: Mike Farrell (campaign already, you douche!)
State Representative: Greg Vitali
I have to say, I was more pleased than usual with my Democratic choices. Mike Farrell was the lone exception.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/st…
Voted at an off campus precinct, pretty busy had about all 20 voting machines full and a few people in line. This was at 10:00 AM when most people have class, so hopefully Strickland can pull it out.
Straight Dem except I just couldn’t vote for Fischer or Portman so I cast a protest vote in that one.
Here is an article that says Orlando area turnout is a steady stream. Also, it mentioned one Democratic precinct with higher turnout than expected.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com…
Voted for Kitz, DeFazio, Wyden and yes on the marijuana dispensary prop. I think DeFazio is going to win by about 10-15 points, same for Wyden and Kitz is going to squeak it out by a couple. I will also closely be watching my home state of California.
I voted in early October as Ohio has a month of early voting which Republicans want to stop. My wife, my in-laws, my sister-in-law and I voted then. We all voted a straight Democratic ballot. I will not vote for Republicans.
I took Mom to her polling place around 10:30 AM and already a sheet with about 80 names was full. That is good turnout so early.
I voted Cuomo on WFP for Ballot Line purposes
I voted straight Democratic from Schumer to end of the ballot. No local props. on ballot.
Just got back from the voting place, where I was the only person under 110 years old there.
Governor: Dayton/Prettner-Solon
SOS-Ritchie
AG-Swanson
Auditor-Otto
State Rep-Laine
State Senator-Goodwin
Congressman-Schrunck (Independence) (I can’t bring myself to vote for Ellison. He is too much of a dick bag for me to fill in the dot for. He will win handily, but not with my vote.)
Sestak, Dan-O, Doyle, and Dem State Rep. I was the 83rd voter in my precienct, though I live in an area dominated by college students. Time to go drag more of them out to vote….
Making a few GOTV calls but no one was picking up. At the Democratic headquarters though, we had about 16 people at 10:30 PDT so there were others making calls too.
Making a few GOTV calls but no one was picking up. At the Democratic headquarters though, we had about 16 people at 10:30 PDT so there were others making calls too.
In Georgia. Not a lot of turnout — this area is sort of the type of area that was Democratic but has moved away from that in recent years, so I’m not sure if this is good or bad.
Straight Democrat, when Democrats were on the ballot.
of really high turnout in Eastern PA. Can anyone verify that for me?
Town question 1: Resolution to appropriate/authorize bonds of $1.95 million for design/construction to upgrade dry pit sewer pump stations: yes.
Town question 2: Resolution to appropriate/authorize bonds of $3 million for expansion of senior center: no. I wasn’t really sure how to vote on this, but with economies the way they are, and this being the biggest budget item on the ballot…yeah. Also, it seemed like the least necessary of the three.
Town question 3: Resolution to appropriate/authorize bonds of $1.1 million for federal handicapped code compliance renovations/improvements to South Windsor High School: yes. I think we need to keep the federal money coming.
Candidates: All dems.
Governor and Lieutenant Governor: Dan Malloy and Nancy Wyman. I haven’t been polled so consider this a plus relative to the state of current polling.
Senator: Richard Blumenthal.
Representative: John Larson.
State Senator: Gary LeBeau.
State Representative: Hugh Brower, on whose behalf I’ve been doing some phonebanking and canvassing. Best of luck to him.
Secretary of the State: Denise Merrill. I met her at the town fair a couple months ago.
Treasurer: Denise Nappier.
Comptroller: Kevin Lembo.
Attorney General: George Jepsen. I’ve heard that Jepsen was one of the ones to tattle on Bysiewicz early on, but now the Republicans have come back to bite him in the ass. Oh well. What goes around comes around I guess?
Judge of Probate: Brian Griffin. In the primary, I voted for Marianne Lassman-Fisher. Heck, I even did a diary on this. But this time I changed my vote, because of a personal story critical of her professional behavior, from a trusted friend. In any case, she’s a registered Dem who is actually running on the Repub line due to cross-endorsement.
If you have kids, or you will someday, and you don’t take them voting, TAKE THEM. It’s awesome and makes the experience that much more rewarding for me, teaching THEM the importance of voting. They’re 4 and 2, and I pick them up alternately to take turns pressing the commands on the touchscreen. I just close my eyes and look away!…no, not really, j/k, I tell them what commands to press. The only downer was my daughter was disappointed that they didn’t have kids’ coloring books available this time, as they often do.
We have only the U.S. House race plus 4 referenda on local ballots today, and of course I voted for Democrat Jeff Barnett in VA-10 and then “yes” on all the referenda at the instruction of the county Dems’ voters’ guide. Barnett is our sacrificial lamb, but I don’t care, tens of thousands will vote for him anyway, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t one of ’em. Thank you, Jeff Barnett, for giving us an alternative who shares our values.
do not take voting turnout anecdotes at face value because I give an example of it…
For DC’s Mayor’s race, there were stories and tweets that turnout was light. But no one factored in early voting. After the vote was counted, turnout was not light at all. It was higher than the last mayorial primary.
I voted in Simpsonville, South Carolina at 1:30 PM. I didn’t have to wait in line, but the polling place felt busy. They told me they’ve had 2-300 voters already. That’s good. Some anecdotes.:
Polling place volunteers bought hot chocolate, cookies and coffee for voters. On the other hand, Anthony’s Pizzeria, Zaxby’s and Dunkin Donuts bought food for the volunteers. I walked in the polling place and saw a huge banner saying, “Food provided by ANTHONY’S PIZZERIA”, next to a pile of Anthony’s Pizzeria take-out menus.
I voted mostly Democrat. The two exceptions were Green candidate Tom Clements in the Senate race against DeMint, and Greenville County councilman Fred Payne. Payne’s a right wing Republican running unopposed. But he has a strong record of building parks, and so I gave him a break. We had four more constitutional amendments. I voted “No” on making hunting and fishing a constitutional right (Huh?), and “No” on the amendments to raise the State Reserve Fund from 3% to 5% and to make keeping the fund replenished top priority (I don’t like arbitrary obligations with no context for actual circumstances.) I voted “Yes” on giving employees the right to vote by secret ballot on unionizing. But I think some Dems were against that? If so, I don’t really understand why.
You know what annoys me? Obscure races where I can’t find any information. We had votes for County Auditor, County Probate Judge, County Treasurer, and Soil and Water District Commissioners, all unopposed. I could barely find any information on these candidates. I don’t want to vote uninformed, and so I had to default and put in write-in candidates. It’s annoying.
Let’s see how the results turn out.
In Burtonsville, Maryland, which is in MD-04 (part of the Montgomery County part of the district) and District 14 for the state legislature.
I had a Democratic sample ballot so I voted straight Dem all the way. I was hung up on County Board of Education races as those races are non-partisan and the sample ballot didn’t show any recommendations for the races. I just voted randomly as I assumed that they are all Democrats, or at least liberal independents or Republicans.
Turnout seemed low, only about 5-7 people including me and my Mother. On the other hand, voting is heaviest in the early evening.
Election didn’t seem as exciting as the primary, especially at the state level with 2 out of 3 Delegate seats (Maryland has multi-member districts for the lower house) being open. The incumbent State Senator narrowly lost the primary to one of the Delegates who challenged her (both are women). I’m kinda bummed that both open seats were filled by white men for the Dem primary (but I did vote for one of them, who is a Jew and made it to the general). Herman Taylor (the only black delegate of District 14) is idiot for challenging Edwards, he cut short his promising career over a foolish endeavor.
I hope turnout gets bigger later in the day for the Sake of O’Malley, but all the last polls indicate to me that he isn’t collapsing among independents like other Democrats (including in other blue states) around the country. And with Democrats making a majority of registered voters, AND being twice in number than Republicans AND Indepedents AND Democrats in Maryland being fairly liberal (unlike certain states like Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arkansas) I’d say O’Malley will at least narrowly win reelection.
Voted absentee. Lots of Coloradans seem really unhappy about their choices, but I was very pleased to be able to cast votes for the following folks:
Gov: Hickenlooper (D)
Sen: Bennet (D)
AG: Suthers (R-inc)
SOS: Buescher (D-inc)
Treas: Kennedy (D-inc)
Voted to retain all the judges, NO on the numbers (3 anti-tax initiatives and a really regressive “personhood” measure that would give zygotes more rights than gay people) and YES on the letters (housekeeping stuff).
I was voter #97 at about 1:20 PM. Voted pretty much straight-ticket Democrat, even though it won’t matter for the legislative and local races in which there wasn’t even a Republican listed. Then voted to retain all of the judges.
I was sad that I didn’t get an “I Voted” sticker, though.
Straight Dem ticket:
Gov.: Jerry Brown
Sen.: Barbara Boxer
Rep.: Henry Waxman
Lt. Gov.: Gavin Newsom
Sec. of State: Debra Bowen
Controller: John Chiang
Treasurer: Bill Lockyer (His commercial’s tagline is “no bullshit”. I’m not kidding.)
Atty. Gen.: Kamala Harris
Ins. Comm.: Dave Jones
Superintendent: Tom Torlakson
State Board of Equalization: Jerome Horton (4th district)
Assembly: Holly Mitchell (AD-47)
California Supreme Court:
Yes on Carlos Moreno,
No on Tani Cantil-Sakauye & Ming Chin
Moreno authored the decision that made gay marriage legal in that 4-3 ruling in 2008. Chin was one of the 3 that voted against it.
For the rest of the judges, I found this Republican site saying what judges met their approval… and voted the opposite. 😉
Propositions:
19: No
20: No
21: Yes
22: No
23: HELL NO!
24: Yes
25: Yes
26: HELL NO!
27: Yes
I couldn’t decide on 19 until I stepped into the voting booth. I was very conflicted. But in the end, the way it was written was flawed enough that I couldn’t support it.
There was no line when I went to vote. The guy working there said it was sporadic, with students showing up in bunches (probably after getting out of class on the hour).
For PA-15 only, 7-10am. This is the district that is making headlines for ridiculously high turnout. All Republicans are winning, but Sestak is only down 51-47 against Toomey even though this Toomey’s home district. In fact, Sestak is far and away the best-performing Democrat in the 15th.
G: Corbett 55, Onorato 43
S: Toomey 51, Sestak 47
H: Dent 53, Callahan 42, Teabagger 4
The 15th is a very volatile swing district in the Lehigh Valley.
No less than 13 ballot propositions by Pima County, including one of those fun Obamacare nullifaction propositions and Ward Connelly parachuting into the state to try and ban affirmative action. I’m worried that both are going to pass, although Arizonans did pretty solidly defeat an identical proposition to the anti-Obamacare one before there even was Obamacare in 2008, so you never know. I’m hoping that long ballot length doesn’t turn too many people off.
I feel relatively good about what I’m seeing among my friends. Lots of people who didn’t strike me as particularly likely voters ended up voting, and I convinced some people to vote. Antecdotal experience does not equate to a poll, of course, but I wouldn’t be horribly surprised to learn that rumors of depressed voter turnout among young people and Hispanics in Arizona have been exaggerated.
Anyway, my votes went:
Governor: Terry Goddard (D)
Senator: Rodney Glassman (D) I guess… Can’t vote for McCain now that he’s not even pretending to be semi-moderate, but I don’t really want to encourage Glassman’s future political career either.
Congress: Gabrielle Giffords (D)
Secretary of State: Chris Deschene (D) His future political career, on the other hand, I’d like to encourage.
Attorney General: Felecia Rotellini (D)
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Penny Kotterman (D)
And so on in that fashion… did you know that Arizona votes for Mine Inspector for some reason?
Hill
Robertson (state rep)
Young (state senator)
Dem in Treasurer and SoS; Rep in Auditor.
All D’s in local except one and no on constitutional amendment
A tea bagger in line was trying to talk me into going R, I politely refused. Decent turnout, nothing dramatic.
I voted:
Gov: Jerry Brown (D)
Senate: Barbara Boxer (D-Inc)
House: Jackie Speier (D-Inc)
Lt. Gov: Abel Maladonado (R-Inc)
Attorney General: Steve Cooley (R)
Controller: John Chiang (D-Inc)
Treasurer: Bill Locker (D-Inc)
Insurance Commissioner: Dave Jones (D)
Secretary of State: Debra Bowen (D-Inc)
Board of Equalization (District 1): Betty T. Lee (D-Inc?)
Superintendent: Tom Torlakson (D-NP)
State Senate: Leland Yee (D-Inc)
State Assembly: Jerry Hill (D-Inc)
Prop 19: Yes (Was going to vote no but seeing the Giants won and one of Tim Lincecum’s favorite things is to smoke weed, I decided to vote yes. There you go Lincecum, there’s my gift to you for your outstanding pitching.)
Prop 20: No
Prop 21: Yes
Prop 22: Yes
Prop 23: FUCK NO
Prop 24: Yes
Prop 25: Yes
Prop 26: No
Prop 27: No
I happen to live very close to the townhall so I just walked there.
Anyways voted
Feingold for senate.
Barrett for Gov
Lassa for U.S House [I was tempted to vote third party though]
perala for St Assembly
Wrote in a 18 year old mayor of the biggest town in my county for St Sen because I don’t like the actual candidates
Hasset for AG
King for Sec of state
Schuller for treasurer
Voted in the county races but I dont give a shit who wins them.
yes on some advisory referendum
After I got done I asked how many people had voted so far, the lady said over 200 people had voted so far out of 500 some registered voters. I would guess atleast another 100 will vote before polls close.
on the way to the VMware conference, dropped off ballots at the local library at opening. Lots of people in line waiting for the library to open — ballots in hand.
(This particular library is an official ballot drop-off station.)
Since I work from home, my wife always waits until the last night, and I drop off both of our ballots together. Feels like I’m voting twice — and then I realize most of the people in line also have a couple of ballots in hand.
and I got time to kill, here’s my absentee ballot from like a month ago… (don’t remember if this is the right order but whatever)
Governor: Lincoln Chafee (I)
Representative: David Cicilline (D)
Lt. Governor: Elizabeth Roberts (D-inc)
Secretary of State: A. Ralph Mollis (D-inc)
Attorney General: Peter Kilmartin (D)
State Treasurer: Gina Raimondo (D)
Voted straight D on my blank (local) ballot, which means…
State Senator: Rhoda Perry (D-inc)
State Representative: Edith Ajello (D-inc)
Mayor: Angel Taveras (D)
City Council: Sam Zurier (D)
Voted no on a ballot measure to change the state name from “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” to just “Rhode Island.” Voted yes on two ballot measures about appropriating bonds or something.
I just got back from voting at my polling place in North Hollywood. There was a line out the door and there were hipsters, hippies and Latinos out in force (which is appropriate, considering the neighborhood).
However, while all of the Prop 19 coverage seemed to focus on young people as the crucial voting block, I think people forgot about the hippies. They rarely vote, but with legalization on the ballot, they’ve got to be turning out in record numbers–and in California, that could make a BIG difference.
Also, while the sun was down by the time I voted, two of my poll workers (both young) were wearing giant sunglasses indoors. Oh, LA, how I love you sometimes.