With all precincts reporting, and 58,000 absentee and provisional ballots outstanding, the measure was failing by a margin of 57.01% to 42.99%. [More]
Down in flames. But it does show that a 60% threshold would have kept the tyranny of the majority at bay, at least for now.
I felt this was going to lose bigly just based on observable yard sign saturation, and was also disappointed in the outreach efforts of the “Yes on 1” campaign. This was a statewide campaign and only had “782 likes • 1K followers” on Facebook and “687 Followers” on Twit…uh…X.
Anyone who think this was just about abortion is wearing blinders.
Ah, well, if Democrats want to cull their next generation of voters…