if it was a bad idea, it wouldn’t be on here
tommyBest line from the election coverage last night: “Perhaps it’s just that the voters are stupid.” Dan Ruth, in response to NewsChannel 8’s Lance Williams asking why the voters approved every amendment (gambling excepted). Williams wanted to know “Did they intend to send a message to both the doctors and the lawyers (re: Amendments 3, 7, 8)?”
An accurate assessment, I think. The wording for each amendment is confusing as written on the ballots, and voters do not have (or rather do not take) the time to find out what they are voting for. For every amendment to pass with over 63% of the vote is simply amazing to me. We had some great discussions on the amendments here at Sticks, and most comments both pro and con were thought out and reasoned. I suspect that those attributes represent only 10 or 15% of the general population. The rest just Christmas treed the ballot, or went with the last commercial they heard.
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March 16th, 2006 at 10:12 am
[...] To be sure, voters can be shortsighted, uneducated, small minded ingrates. We’ve said so before. But voters get to be all those things if they want. Our elected officials are expected to be better than that. They should be spending their time educating the voters about this issue rather than trying to stop the voters from even hearing about it. [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
[...] note: See similar laments from the 2004 election, an overwhelming show of apathy in the 2006 election, the general population’s failure to [...]