{"id":6720,"date":"2008-12-04T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:10:11","slug":"report-california-election-turnout-highest-since-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6720","title":{"rendered":"Report: CA Election Turnout Highest Since 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/california\/la-me-election3-2008dec03,0,2326153.story\">voter turnout in California<\/a> last month topped both of former Gov. Ronald Reagan&#8217;s presidential elections, as well as all other elections going back to 1972 when Richard Nixon, another Californian, trounced George McGovern:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">More than 60 percent of Californians who were eligible to vote cast ballots in the Nov. 4 presidential election, the highest turnout since Richard Nixon and George McGovern competed for the office in 1972, elections officials reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The total includes all qualified citizens, including those who had not registered to vote. The percentage of registered voters who cast ballots statewide was 80.6 percentage &#8212; 81.9 percentage in Los Angeles County&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The high turnout in Los Angeles County, not seen since 1968, was a result of several factors, including strong voter interest in the presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain, according to Dean Logan, the county&#8217;s Registrar-Recorder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the combination of an election that has historic significance to both major parties&#8217; tickets, the economic situation and the fact that there was no sitting president or vice president on the ballot,&#8221; Logan said.<\/p>\n<p>Controversial ballot measures, including a ban on gay marriage, also attracted Californians to the polls in high numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state will not post the voter totals until next week, but a survey of the counties indicates the highest turnout since 64.5% of all those eligible to vote cast ballots in 1972.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No word yet on the final tally of the vote for Proposition 8, the anti-gay measure that passed narrowly. There had been speculation that the more than 1 million absentee and provisional votes that were counted after the election might change the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. It&#8217;s interesting that voter turnout in California last month topped both of former Gov. Ronald Reagan&#8217;s presidential elections, as well as all other elections going back to 1972 when Richard Nixon, another Californian, trounced George McGovern:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,122],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-election-2008","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}