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...most closely watched electoral contests last week was not between partisan rivals but over the future of affirmative action programs in California. Proposition 209 on the California state ballot gave voters the opportunity to ban preferences based on race and gender in public education and in state business dealings such as hiring and business contracts. It passed by a healthy majority--54 percent of the California electorate supported...
...unpopular ballot proposition can be helped by a popular candidate, but an unpopular candidate cannot ride a popular proposition. Last week, on his swing through California, Dole embraced as his own the popular Proposition 209, which would roll back affirmative action. The result was to depress 209 briefly and leave Dole lagging in the polls...
...proposition, which bans racial and sex preferences in public hiring, contracting and education, was widely considered one of the most divisive ballot battles across the country...
Which part of the ballot these voters would end up punching was anybody's guess. The monkey-wrench CNN tossed in last night didn't help matters...
Calling an election with polls open should be illegal. If one ever gets on the state ballot, I'll be sure to vote for it. The people of Idaho wouldn't even need CNN to tell them it was a landslide in the voters' favor...