Gloria Romero gets it wrong: HALF THE CALIFORNIA ELECTORATE DIDN’T VOTE
if we are to believe Romero’s fuzzy math:
A quarter of eligible voters gave Democrats supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature.
But we shouldn’t …see following!
BY GLORIA ROMERO / OP-ED FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER | HTTP://BIT.LY/UK0XNH
Published: Nov. 9, 2012 Updated: Nov. 12, 2012 6:48 a.m. :: Pundits called it the most important election of our lifetime.Yet, half of the California electorate – grown larger due to the ease of online registration – sat out the election. Only 52.8 percent of the electorate bothered to vote; 9.6 million of the 18.2 million voters just didn't show up.Orange County reported a 54 percent turnout, slightly better than San Diego's 53.3 percent but far short of San Francisco's 56.7 percent. Fresno County was just dismal ,at 39.1 percent. The highest was Alpine County at 84.9 percent, but since size matters, that translated to 656 voters of its 773 electorate voting. Los Angeles County turned out at an anemic 49.8 percent, but that translated to 2.4 million voters.
On Election Night and for the first time in decades, California became a truly blue state – with Democrats capturing a supermajority of both legislative houses and the power that comes with it: The right to raise taxes, previously blocked by an ever-growing irrelevant Republican Party, which had increasingly only become relevant for legislative budget votes. And then it was to just say “no.” Now even that relevance was gone.
The majority of the half of the electorate bothering to vote rallied to “save public education” and passed the governor's tax initiative (Proposition 30). Indeed, Californians passed 85 percent of school bond and parcel tax measures, authorizing some $12.8 billion in borrowing.
The majority of the half of the electorate who bothered to vote was swayed by opponents of Prop. 32, which sought to cut the specia