Turnout is low so far in Alameda county.

[JRLeft]

It's going to hurt ballot initiatives.

[auntpurl]

1. Where is Alameda?

I don't know my California counties too well.

[JRLeft]

2. In the SF Bay Area it's where Oakland is located.

[auntpurl]

3. Thanks. Hillary area bc of POC? Or Bernie area because very liberal?

[workinclasszero]

4. Wiki info on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_County,_California

[auntpurl]

8. Thx

[JRLeft]

5. The Bay Area is Bernie territory.

[auntpurl]

12. That's a shame.

I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't want depressed voter turnout, no matter WHO is affected. Even the hated Republicans. Everyone should vote.

On the other hand, the announcement yesterday isn't stopping anyone from voting. I hope Bernie supporters manage to stop by after work or school.

[JRLeft]

18. It's not about the presidential primary we have important ballot initiatives that are affected by

this.

[WhiteTara]

38. Unfortuantely there are a lot of people who

only vote because of the president and the rest just doesn't interest them...until it hurts them personally and then they are surprised that it happened.

[Lizzie Poppet]

43. That we agree on.

I don't care if it's occurring is a solidly Hillary area. Hell, I don't want it in solidly Trump areas, for that matter. Vote suppression is pure poison to a democratic society (which I realize ain't necessarily us any more...but it's the goal).

[workinclasszero]

9. Wiki info

2011
Population, race, and income
Total population[12] 1,494,876

White[12] 690,261 46.2%

Black or African American[12] 186,326 12.5%

American Indian or Alaska Native[12] 7,102 0.5%

Asian[12] 391,627 26.2%

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander[12] 12,191 0.8%

Some other race[12] 131,958 8.8%

Two or more races[12] 75,411 5.0%

Hispanic or Latino (of any race)[13] 332,103 22.2%

Per capita income[14] $34,937

Median household income[15] $70,821

Median family income[16] $87,012

[RandySF]

32. Depends

Bernie will win big in Berkekey, as will Hillary in Oakland. I think you'll see pockets of votes for each in the rest of the county.

[Robbins]

6. Blame MSM

They so wanted to cornate Clinton and they couldn't wait till after primary.

this is problem with democratic party today.all they are concerned with are clinton.rest of 2016 race including ballot initiatives
are not that important.

[JRLeft]

10. Hillary was going to be the nominee I've said that for months, but unfortunately

the media unless people come out later will be to the detriment of ballot initiatives.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. I love voters who won't show up unless they get their way.

I live in the reddest state ever, my vote rarely counts and in the primaries I don't normally have anyone to even vote for, but I show up. I have a 100 percent voting record over my 40 plus years of voting. When we move the first thing we do is register to vote. Lazy voters, and middle school thinking (my way or no way) is stupid. If you are an American you need to get to the polls and vote, if you don't stop complaining 24/7.

[JRLeft]

13. A lot of Hillary supporters aren't voting either. It's not about the democratic nomination it's

about the ballot initiatives.

[redstatebluegirl]

17. I don't know about California, but in every state we have lived in

ballot initiatives don't get people to the polls. I was not picking on Bernie supporters, anyone who doesn't show up to vote, has no voice and no right to complain about anything that happens at the polls be it a candidate or an initiative that is life changing to their community.

[JRLeft]

19. It doesn't but if people vote, ballot initiatives are voted on too.

[SDJay]

36. It Depends on the Ballot Initiative

Some really don't affect turnout, others absolutely do. There are also statewide initiatives, county initiatives and local initiatives on most ballots in most elections. We've got everything from statewide to local/municipality/county stuff today.

It still comes down to the media for me. Anyone who doesn't get their ass to the polls because of what the media said is listening to the media way too much.

[FSogol]

16. Amen. n/t

[grossproffit]

11. It's only 8:00 a.m.

[JRLeft]

14. A lot of people show up early in Alameda which is why voting easy.

[auntpurl]

15. Good point.

Maybe not representative of how the day will go?

[JRLeft]

21. We have the Senate primary to vote on too.

[workinclasszero]

20. Then again..isn't vote by mail big in California?

I thought I read that it was around 40% of the votes there recently.

[JRLeft]

22. It is but a lot of people vote on election day.

[workinclasszero]

23. If I was super busy I'd vote by mail if I could

But I think its fun to go to the polling place and see all the people and the campaign signs and cast my vote.

Its an honor and a privilege and to a political junkie like me, fun.

[JRLeft]

25. I vote absentee every year.

[workinclasszero]

26. I did that once when I was stationed overseas

a million years ago LOL

[JRLeft]

27. I do it because I get more time to research.

[workinclasszero]

33. Well I wonder if the turnout will go up

as the day goes by?

3pm to 7pm is usually heavy for voting I believe.

[JRLeft]

34. Let's hope so, I do not want Loretta Sanchez as our Senatorial candidate.

She's the ultimate corporate Democrat.

[SDJay]

37. It'll Be Sanchez and Harris

The repukes have no chance, but again things could be affected at least somewhat by the assholery of the AP yesterday.

[Retrograde]

40. One county's stats

The Santa Clara County registrar has some stats on its home page:
609K ballots sent out, 200K returned as of yesterday. That's a 33% rate, better that the last General Election. Total population in the county is 1.8 million, don't know number of eligible voters.

ETA: Wikipedia claims ~820K registered voters, but I don't know when that was. If remotely accutate, that means between 2/3 and 3/4 of voters vote by mail.

[beachbum bob]

24. hell most people there haven't had their starbucks yet

[NV Whino]

28. It's 8:30 in the morning

The polls have been open for all of an hour?

[RandySF]

29. Isn't a good portion of Alaneda red

Once you get east of the Bay?

[JRLeft]

30. No.

[tularetom]

31. In the 2014 primary election, almost 70% of CA voters mailed in their ballots

So I don't know what "low turnout" even means anymore.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee/

[workinclasszero]

35. Wow!

That's what I mean about Cali, how can you really tell what the turnout is with so many people voting by mail?

You kinda have to wait till they starting ballots really to get a good idea.

[Blue_Adept]

39. Things like this is what has me even less interested in exit polling these days

Never mind the screwups that do happen in weighting and going only to certain areas, but when a growing chunk of people are mailing it in? It becomes the landline v cellphone polling debate.

[MyNameGoesHere]

41. It will be nice to wait until something say a little more

thorough is done, I can look out my window here in Chicago and say turnout looks low in Alameda but it doesn't become a fact until the numbers are in.

[Starry Messenger]

42. Like people said, lot of mail-in ballots this year:

http://www.capradio.org/75273

A new Field Poll estimates that about 8 million people will vote in today’s California presidential primary election. The numbers account for 44.7% of registered voters and 32.5% of eligible voters.

The poll predicts that the voter turnout will be higher than the 2012 low of 31.1% of registered voters, but lower than 2008 - in which 57.7% of registered voters cast ballots.

The poll also predicts that 5 million of the 8 million expected to participate will cast their votes using a mail ballot. That would be a new record in California, where nearly 3.5 million voters cast mail ballot votes in 2012.
- Capital Public Radio Staff

[TheBlackAdder]

44. I live in NJ. We have party boss assholes who vote with Christie, finally having good challengers.

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The AP's pre-ejac will probably affect these state & local challengers, keeping Christie's stranglehold on the state.

The AP should have waited 24 hours. It really does noting more than reinforce that media is tampering in politics.



Some of these jerks fund their own campains to the tune of $100K or more, since very few contribute to them.

They effectively buy the Democratic vote in their districts, and can't be challenged.


This really does screw the down-ballot folks. Thanks for keeping NJ Republican.



It's not like they haven't done that since before Boss Tweed's time, but it's becoming similar now.

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