Oh, all kinds of local ones - like whether we approve a change where the city auditor is appointed by the council rather than they mayor
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Actually, for the primary it only looks like 5 in total.
Statewide, a big school bond of $15bn
County:One about a housing development out near Escindido. One about a general change requiring voter inputs when there's a change to the land use parts of the county's general plan
City: The auditor one and one on increasing hotel taxes to pay for convention center upgrades (and street repairs, but that's just a sop - it's really about the convention center).
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Originally posted by Incandenza View PostI need to start reading about the statewide propositions and to try to find leftist voting guides so I can be told which judges are evil and which ones are less bad.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostDo you have a bunch of local ones as well?
One of the joys of voting in San Francisco is that the City Charter parallels the State Constitution in terms of what is submitted to the voters. There were always multiple questions on minor changes in what qualified as eligible investments for the fire fighters' pension fund and the like.
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Originally posted by Flynnie View Post
The SF Bay Guardian voter guide is an invaluable resource to do precisely this. I don’t know if LA has an equivalent but they should. We had Democratic County Committee seats up for grabs this year, and I’d have no idea who I should vote for without it.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostThere are two Jewish candidates.
I can just about imagine a situation where Sanders is facing Trump in the election, with Trump claiming Sanders stole the nomination from "My good friend Mike, who's Jewish" by telling "all sorts of wicked, nasty lies about him."Last edited by Lurgee; 15-02-2020, 20:40.
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Those data seem to run to 2009 and 2012. I believe that the bankruptcy rate has fallen dramatically since the ACA was brought in. It's still shockingly high, and doesn't negate the core point that nobody should go into bankruptcy because they're sick, but things have definitely improved.
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Bloomberg has apparently spent $308 million on advertising.
edit: so it's obviously in the interest of the networks to keep him in the raceLast edited by anton pulisov; 17-02-2020, 12:01.
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Originally posted by anton pulisov View PostBloomberg has apparently spent $308 million on advertising.
edit: so it's obviously in the interest of the networks to keep him in the race
What has been the fallout in the mainbstream media of Bloomberg getting endorsements from the likes of Bobby Rush and Sylvester Turner?
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Last edited by Snake Plissken; 18-02-2020, 14:24. Reason: Fixing the link so that it goes to Twitter
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post“Polling is tricky in Nevada” they say. Sanders leading by 19 points in one poll today with Tom Steyer in 5th. Tom Steyer leading by 3 in another poll, with Sanders in 4th
African-American 9%
Asian 2.6%
Hispanic 17.1%
Other 2.4%
White 69%
and by age:
18-20 5.2%
30-39 7.9%
40-49 10.4%
50-65 27.1%
65+ 49.4%
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Aren't all polling samples skewed (particularly when only old people have landlines) - and you then have to adjust the data to match the general population?
I'll admit to thinking that the Steyer poll is bollocks and the Sanders one is way more likely. But I'm just pointing out that predicting the details of the Nevada caucus is probably a fool's errand.
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