Posted: 11/5/2025 1:41:17 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Trollslayer][Edited]
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Collin Rugg @CollinRugg Despite passing Prop 50, which just stripped power from California's nonpartisan commission, 92% of CA voters say district lines should be drawn by a nonpartisan commission. "The irony is 9 of 10 voters said they'd like to see this done by a nonpartisan commission." Are people really this stupid?
If their poll results are representative and "92% of CA voters say district lines should be drawn by a nonpartisan commission", then why did Prop 50 pass? |
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Originally Posted By Featureless: A big percentage are lazy, too. A strong Republican turnout might have shifted things. It was a special election with only one issue on the ballot. Have you seen how many people voted? Was it an overall weak turn out or normal or...? Did most of those 92% fail to get out and vote, leaving the 8% to "win the day"? Is that what happened? |
| I looked at one site, maybe Secretary of State, trying to find the actual mapping lines. I'd found them easily during the run-up but they had shifted from the Prop details to election result details, etc. It wasn't all that low, maybe some higher than I expected. IIRC, seemed to run from about 30% to 50% depending on the counties. |
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I was doing some arithmetic with these numbers. Not knowing how many votes were cast, I used 1 million votes for my example. You can say "votes per million ballots cast". POLLING 92% don't agree with Prop 50. - 920,000 8% agree with Prop 50 - 80,000 VOTING 64% of the votes were in favor of Prop 50 - 640,000 36% of the votes were against Prop 50 - 360,000 560,000 voters (56%) of the voters went along with Proposition 50 even though they disagree with its content. That's more than half the voters voting to pass a proposition even though they disagree with it. 80,000 (8%) voters swayed an additional 560,000 to vote FOR something they personally disagreed with! I believe a study would show that many bad things have been put on the ballots and they almost always pass. It's just that this one is off the charts in terms of the disparity between the survey and the voting. |
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Originally Posted By Trollslayer: I was doing some arithmetic with these numbers. Not knowing how many votes were cast, I used 1 million votes for my example. You can say "votes per million ballots cast". POLLING 92% don't agree with Prop 50. - 920,000 8% agree with Prop 50 - 80,000 VOTING 64% of the votes were in favor of Prop 50 - 640,000 36% of the votes were against Prop 50 - 360,000 560,000 voters (56%) of the voters went along with Proposition 50 even though they disagree with its content. That's more than half the voters voting to pass a proposition even though they disagree with it. 80,000 (8%) voters swayed an additional 560,000 to vote FOR something they personally disagreed with! I believe a study would show that many bad things have been put on the ballots and they almost always pass. It's just that this one is off the charts in terms of the disparity between the survey and the voting. Everyone bit on "Orange Man bad", nobody paid any attention past Newscums claims on sticking it to T$ |
Watching the kids shoot Pieeater's 1919 was great. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing a little kid kneeling in a pile of brass and links.-Pthfndr after the Nov 13th NorCal shoot