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Prop 19 Virtually Dead According to California Elections Polls

Posted by Brian Krassenstein on Nov 2nd, 2010 and filed under Featured News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Proposition 19 Polls

California Polls Show Prop 19 Not Doing Well

What has been a long battle in the state of California to legalize marijuana, is finally coming to a conclusion. As voters in California go to vote in the 2010 election, Proposition 19, also known as Prop 19 for short, is getting almost as much attention as the Governor’s and Senate elections in the nation’s most populated state. Those opposed to Prop 19, which would legalize the use of marijuana in the state, are already celebrating it’s failure.

Even though polls in California don’t close for several hours, and there has been no exit polling stats released as of yet, those against the Proposition seem to be filled with confidence. This may be mainly due to the fact that pre-election polls in California in the days leading up to today’s election showed that things were beginning to sway against Proposition 19. A poll released by Public Policy Polling over this last weekend showed that only 44% of California voters were for the proposition to legalize marijuana, while 51% said they were against it. That is certainly statistically significant, and is a far cry from some of the polls just last month which were mostly all showing support for the measure.

Without any data from exit polls, and due to the fact that pre-election polls often have skewed results, depending on the voting demographics, Prop 19 is certainly not dead yet, however, things do not necessarily look bright for those in support of it.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KHMTBCNIA4H7BRZYYRNHOE3BM4 scott

    you dont even have any exit poll data yet? wtf are you talking about?

  • http://twitter.com/teylor Teylor

    me nor any of my friends were polled. who was polled? and yea, no exit poll data? weak article..

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    What the fuck are you talking about? LMAO!

    The youth turnout has been quite large this election! Larger than either of the previous 2 election turnouts!

    Furthermore, I wouldn’t trust the polls. People lie all the time on pre-election polls when it comes to discussing their stance on an legalizing a currently illegal substance.

    Vote YES!

  • Anonymous

    Why did I just read this non story. Can I have my time refunded?

  • Anonymous

    Load of crap

    Unbiased factual news? You gotta be kidding me

  • Anonymous

    He just sleazed himself into some web traffic…

  • http://twitter.com/angelabacca Angela Bacca

    Wait… so you are telling me that 1) there are no official results yet, but you are calling it dead?

    Factual Unbiased NEWS???

    sounds like short-sighted speculation to me.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone who hanvnt voted yet! Go and votes on prop 19. It’s crazy not too. It has so manny beneficial things that can come from it. Like the billions it will make on taxing it and the million and millions it will save on prosecution innocent people. They have also proven that it does not kill brain cells. The research they used when they said that it did kill your brain cells was using monkeys, they would put these suction cups over there mouths and pump 20 or 30 times the amount that is used by us. They had no oxygen to breath, they were pretty much suffocating them. And what is the affect of suffocation, dead brain cells. Theses studys were made so long ago and the fact that people don’t smoke weed because of these outdated facts upsets me. The government has been making medicine from weed into pills and what ever but because it’s prescribed from a doctor its fine. I thing the government and all the drug companies don’t want it to be legalized because people will start to grow there medicine in there backyard and won’t have to go to the pharmacy and pay for a prescription. Marijuana has literally countless amount of good things that can come from marijuana. YES on prop 19!!!

  • Anonymous

    Hey Brian Krassenstein (OP),

    What the hell you’re talking about?. There’s no data yet and tons of people have voted YES for Prop 19 so stopping pushing lies like your government and get your facts straight.

    I smell great success and healthy smokes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1701482408 Richard Clark

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    LOAD OF CRAP, Stop trying to scare the last voters into no.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1701482408 Richard Clark

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    LOAD OF CRAP, Stop trying to scare the last voters into no.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1701482408 Richard Clark

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    LOAD OF CRAP, Stop trying to scare the last voters into no.

  • doctor-K

    It is not over until it’s over! Everything will depend on young voter turnout. Prop. 19 can still win, but in any case, our wonderful slogan “YES on 19″ will live on in Consciousness!

  • doctor-K

    It is not over until it’s over! Everything will depend on young voter turnout. Prop. 19 can still win, but in any case, our wonderful slogan “YES on 19″ will live on in Consciousness!

  • doctor-K

    It is not over until it’s over! Everything will depend on young voter turnout. Prop. 19 can still win, but in any case, our wonderful slogan “YES on 19″ will live on in Consciousness!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Govette/1415835162 John Govette

    “People lie all the time on election polls when it comes to discussing legalizing illegal substances” Yo dumbfuck, how often is it any state votes on illegal substances? Stick that foot back in your mouth an think about what you said. And where are you getting your information on the youth turnout? Please provide references of your info.
    And please don’t go making up things to attempt to prove your point. Ignorant people like you making jackass claims doesn’t help your cause.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Govette/1415835162 John Govette

    “cause you and your friends out of the 30+ million Californians had to be polled right? There are thousands and thousands of voting places. 19 ain’t gonna happen. I said this when it was first introduced. Horribly written Prop that takes away rights so you can buy weed at 7/11. I don’t bend over for anything and 19 was all about constricting the rules on something that needs no rules anymore tighter than cigarettes. If you are willing to have less rights than cigarette smokers then you have no honor or backbone

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Govette/1415835162 John Govette

    Kinda ignorant to say it relies on young voter turnout. Generalizing is about as ignorant as you can get. Why not baby-boomers or hippy generation, there are a ton of them in CA. Just cause people are young means they are more prone to support 19?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Govette/1415835162 John Govette

    VOTE NO on 19. It isn’t going to pass, you have my word on it. I will be laughing in a few hours when the stoners are all crying about not being able to pass a completely bullshit bill

  • Anonymous

    Alright ass hole I’m sick of seeing you trash on everyone that comments on this. Your obviously an idiot if you don’t see how beneficial this bill could be to everyone. Making marijuana illegal causes nothing but problems like crime and wasted tax money. Your obviously a fucking idiot so stop commenting on this and if this bill doesn’t pass it’s because of stupid and ignorant people like you that are too biased to accept the truth. So thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chelsearhaas Chelsea Haas

    So, what exactly do you have against marijuana?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XVVVJ5ULYFTHOZQJ6IGWVFMWTU jackie

    Amazing that all of you have no fucken idea what you are talking about. You don’t even know what the prop is, what it says or haw it will impact my state of California! First, it is a proposition to legalize 1 ounce or less of pot to be carried on your person AND 25 sq ft of property to be used for growing pot. Second, There is NO mention in the proposition on how California will make ANY money. There is no taxation schedule whatsoever. The tax structure is to be determined at the city level!! Are you kidding me? This completely defeats the “puropose” of legalizing marajuana on ANY basis that it will help California’s economy. As a matter of fact, what WILL happen is every piece of shit town in the state will try to low ball their taxing to get the biggest piece for their little piece of the pie. The money that will actually make it to the “state ” level will be so wahsed out by this run and gun local taxation that the profits/help will be miniscule. I am ONE HUNDRED PERCENT in favor of legalizing what I believe is a fairly benign substace and far less harmful then booze!! However, we need to take this step in the right way and make sure that California gets the money it needs to heal this state!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZDFK2YCMFIZAVK3C66VDIY3RPM shredchic

    I voted for Prop 19. It’s a waste of tax payer money to keep incarcerating non-violent marijuana users. The fact is most violent crimes involve alcohol, not marijuana. (please google it yourself), and it takes law enforcement’s time and efforts away from dealing with violent crime. The state legislature should just decriminalize it, at the very least, if this prop does not pass. Edit: Actually, the state legislature did just decriminalize it… lol!

  • Anonymous

    I live in Colorado and we just brought in 10 million in revenue for our state from the medical marijuana industry. California is sucking on all levels, shitty schools, roads, closed state parks, unemployment and on and on. How do you think you are gonna pull your state out of this hole? Legalizing marijuana is your only option-unless of course you want to start processing nuclear waste like Utah and have 3 legged children and such. Hahha…Marijuana is the cure for our country’s ailments and its fear based people like you that are holding us back.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/WELVJ332Z26ZKBAWL3TYJUSC4E steve

    I’d like to see your kids arrested for smoking a joint. Then you would see the hassles of unlawful prohibition. Listen douchebag your dog is more educated than you teach him how to type. Your God tried prohibition and he only had two people to deal with and guess what, he failed. Keeping it illegal is a huge mistake for everyone not just pot smokers. You cannot be truly free if your only given pieces of freedom. This was a vote for freedom, and again California and the whole country loose.
    Booze is deadly although legal, Prescription drugs are deadly although legal, Tobacco is deadly although legal. Guns are deadly although legal. Pot is harmless and it’s illegal. Something is not making sense.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/WELVJ332Z26ZKBAWL3TYJUSC4E steve

    well said, I couldn’t agree more…

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