California’s Nonvoters Could Radically Change Outcomes Across the Board, Study Released Today Shows

Frank,
Thanks for noting that the Prop. 1C housing and shelter bond enjoys stronger support among likely voters than the 49% cited in yesterday's PPIC report. In fact, the higher support was registered not by other public pollsters but by PPIC itself. PPIC's August survey, which used the exact ballot language to describe 1C, found 57% support for the measure among likely voters. The 49% figure cited in yesterday's report was from PPIC's May survey, which summarized the description of the measure because exact ballot language was not available then. The bottom line is that the most recent independent public polling shows Prop 1C with strong majority support in almost all regions of the state and among almost all demographic groups.
-- Sam Delson
Communications Director
Yes on Prop 1C

As always, the division is between those who pay and those who don't, between those who have and those who don't, between those who can and those who can't.

So if you get rid of the illegals, who are included in your non-voting population, what then are the numbers?

So why are you "progressives" so committed to the proposition that nirvana can be obtained by soaking the rich? Haven't you yet learned that the rich own the top politicians of both major parties body and soul, that all you are really doing is soaking the productive working Americans, which both major parties now like to call the "middle class."

Why don't you start doing demographics on where the present tax burden lies heaviest?

Why don't you look into the APTTax (Automatic Payment [financial] Transaction Tax) which, by computer, collects government revenue from the flow of money and soaks rich and poor alike in proportion to the money they spend or manipulate, instead of from working people? Dummy up, the progressive income tax, which was supposed to be the instrument by which the people could break the stranglehold of the rich, had been turned against the people.

You Liberals are supposed to be "intellectuals" but really are dumb, dumb, dumb. And the idea of making America the land of milk and honey by importing ovewhelming masses of the poor and downtrodden of the world is just about the most insane notion you have ever developed.

Don't you know that the P&Ds breed faster than any society can absorb? Why during my lifetime the world's population has trebled, and now the depressed populations of Central America and Africa are boiling over into their affluent neighborhoods. Lemmings and locusts, James Thurber and The Holy Bible.

Dummy up, dummies.

P.S.

And the idea of solving problems one by one by borrowing money, taken right out of Aaanold's play book, is also dumb, dumb, dumb. The Rich and Powerfull (R&Ps) love tax free bonds. Why invest your wealth in building new factories and other long term investments in America that will provide jobs for Americans, when you can get a guaranteed 6% tax free return by buying bonds? Do you think the R%Ps are stupid? Like you people who just say "Gimme the Money! Gimme the Money!" You and working Caliornians are the ones who will be taxed to repay these incredible borrowings. Or are you figuring on letting the state go bankrupt?

Great idea! Out of the ashes arises ?? What? What on earth do you imagine life would be like when California, America's largest and most secure life boat, becomes full to overflowing with the Poor and Downtrodden (R&Ds), the working population is taxed beyond endurance to support the burdens of government and debt, and the people who have invested their life's savings in the American Dream, their own homes find their homes so burdened with tax and personal debt as to be unmarketable?

How will we weather the storm?? I don't have the least idea. Do you? Have you even thought about it? Why not? Or do you really care? Duh! Gimme the Money! Gimme the Money!

Join The Howard Beale Memorial Society. Dummy up! Get Mad! Fight Back!

Good gosh, your own satistics show how assimilation of others isn't working, especially if your numbers include illegal aliens. Why?

With no pride in earning your way and your keep, in not garnering property you can call your own, in not feeling as part of our society via a common language and adhereance to our common laws, that all begats apathy and a search only for the next easy handout via "sensitive" types who only further exaserbate the problem.

It does not surprise me that a couple of people used this article to issue an anti immigrant rant. However, immigration is part of the story.
When measuring who votes among Latinos, for example, a very large group can not vote. it is not only the undocumented. It is also the many permanent resident aliens. However, they have children. And, the children born in the U.S. are citizens. So, in 18 years, they will be able to vote. Among the Latino population as a whole, about half are under 18 and can not vote. Among the adult Latino population about half can not vote because they are not (yet) citizens. This reduceds the Latino vote from about 34% of adults to 14 % of voters. Face it. California is changing. Our electoral system lags behind the demographic changes. this produces extra power for the older- Anglo population. This population is declining, but hangs on to political power.

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