2012 Election Center: The Main Event - Obama Wins

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noname2200 said:

smbu2000 said:

Narrowly, but it's passing.

http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_21945748

Overcoming decades of anti-tax sentiment in California, Gov. Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 -- billed as a tax hike to rescue the state's schools -- narrowly won Tuesday.

That's good news. I don't think it would have been a total armageddon if the measure hadn't passed, but it wouldn't have been good either.

Yeah, good news that it passed. The rival tax measure prop 38 was soundly defeated.

I was watching (I think) NBC news while the CA returns were still coming in and they were talking to Gov. Brown and asking him how his prop was faring (prop 30) and he was saying that it was still close. Then onscreen they showed a graphic of the prop 38 (not his prop 30) being destroyed and they kind of looked at him like he was crazy because it wasn't close at all. After they said sorry that they had put up the graphic for the wrong prop, hehe.