Wow, seems like Prop 19 is going to lose!

[KansasVoter]

Polls in last week have all gone under 50%!
Old people getting against it!
DAMN!!

[Maat]

1. This Californian is trying her best to get people to vote it in.

I'm sad about the polls. :(

[DearAbby]

2. How many people are going to answer

YEAH I am for it, to a live pollster/stranger on the other end of an open line? I will do a wait and see, people may feel differently alone in with the ballot.

[Zhade]

21. In fact, automated polls show it passing by a nice margin.

NT!

[Journeyman]

3. I believe the postmortem will find those who opposed it are quite diverse. . .

and the spectrum of opposition will cut across all demographics.

[emilyg]

9. I believe you are right.

[flamingdem]

4. They used fear: the schoolbus driver will be high, the nurse will be high nt

[Kurovski]

6. Now they can continue to be drunk

...and illegally High.

Go Nurse Betty!

[HuckleB]

5. At first I was shocked by your OP headline.

But then I began to remember that this trend often follows measures like this. Logic gives the measure a good lead, but the opposition uses baseless fear to kill it.

Ugh.

[Old and In the Way]

7. There's big money to be maintained by keeping the status quo.

Prisons, DEA, alcohol, the growers/investors all have a vested interest in keeping pot illegal. I'm sure they can get the rent-a-poll results they want...but I suspect that voters of California are going to pass this. I think they realize how much discretionary income is locked up in marijuana purchases that could be better spent in the above ground economy. And the tax dollar savings in prosecuting/incarcerating for simple possession cases. Given all of the real problems that this country faces today, the marijuana 'problem' ranks about 3,956.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Actually the right should be for this

It would be less government, less court costs, police, federal agencies,
all kinds of cost savings

[RainDog]

10. there are social conservatives on both the right and left

we see that here.

honestly, I have no use for any of them on either side of the aisle.

[Zhade]

23. You misspelled "assholes"

:evilgrin:

[RainDog]

25. LOL!!!!!

:spray:

[HuckleB]

11. Except that the right only pretends to care about those things.

AND the right is driven by fear of change.

[Historic NY]

12. Prop 19 to go up in smoke wil be the headline....give an old person a spliff.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I'm taking the long view on this one...

I suspect it may lose, but it won't be the end.

It wasn't terribly well written, IMHO. Having each county/town/whatever writing their own rules (IIRC) wasn't too smart. That needs to be done over.

Eventually, probably not too far in the future, it will pass.

It will.

Oh, and BTW...not all old people are against it... ;)

[pinto]

18. I tend to agree. It's an awkwardly written Prop. I'm voting for it...but I can see the points

folks are making about its construct. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Yup, that is how I feel too!

GMTA!

:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

14. Damned old people

They ruin everything.

[Life Long Dem]

15. I say it will win.

Polls have the "Broadus Effect".

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2010/10/prop_19_winning_pot_poll.php
http://yeson19.com/internalpoll

[sabrina 1]

16. I don't know if it's old people or not, but tonight I helped two

80 something year olds fill out their ballots and both are voting for it. I don't know a lot of people in their age range, but they believe that people should be able to decide for themselves 'when they are grown up' and if it helps them with pain etc.

Everyone I talk to here (in Ojai) is for it. And a few people I have talked to registered to vote just so they can vote for it. I'm sure there are a lot of people against it also. We'll see.

[defendandprotect]

24. Common sense suggests you're correct .....

They have to know there's a lot of money involved in Drug War which

would help all Americans in many ways --

They should also understand the threat of jail for their grandkids if they dabble

with marijuana -- and the need to move this to the "health issue" side of the fence --

Glad to hear the issue is bringing people out to vote!!

:)

[uncle ray]

17. meanwhile things are bizarre here in bizarro-world.

aka Colorado Springs.

there is a county ballot measure to ban dispensaries in unincorporated el paso county. it looks like the measure will be voted down, meaning dispensaries will be allowed to continue to operate. i guess the evangelical military right really loves their smoke.

it's a similarly complex issue here. banning dispensaries would mean that cannabis could still be grown in homes in neighborhoods, which is protected by the state constitution. the opposition is Citizens for Safe Neighborhoods, encouraging commercial grow ops operated under the watchful eye of the state and local officials instead of impossible to regulate home grows. so we have people who are against pot who will be voting to support dispensaries in order to discourage the small commercial residential operations.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Like LGBT marriage equality, they can only hold back the tide for so long.

Maybe not this year, but it's coming. Abso-fucking-lutely.

Some people need to deal with it, and find other hobbies besides telling consenting adults how to live their lives and what to do with their bodies. Oh No!

[RainDog]

26. agreed n/t

[defendandprotect]

22. Would think it's Big Pharma and Big Money .... ????

Why would the elderly not understand the threat of illegal drugs to their

grandkids?

Or paying for the Drug War -- $43 billion and more?