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What the fuck is going on in Florida? Was the wording confusing or something? It’s such an outlier compared to even other conservative states with similar ballot measures.
Edit: I just read about the 60% threshold, and thanks to who’s who pointed it out.
wtf man…yeah enjoy your “victory”.
It’s because the measure needed 60% to pass, and “only” managed 57.4%..
..tyranny of the minority reins in Florida.
Also, the governor practiced some pretty aggressive voter intimidation. Cops straight up knocking on supporters doors. Dude is scum.
No, nothing confusing, it was just designed to fail by the state. Amendments take a 60% supermajority in Florida. This bill only got 57%.
Fuck the will of the people!
They should take a page from Oklahoma...
Medical marijuana passes at around 55%... "Okay. The people have spoken. Guess we're doin' marijuana now."
No, no, that would be too democratic. Listening to the outcome of an election sounds like some communist bullshit.
The right listens to the will of the people when it favors them. Otherwise it's all cheating and rigged.
Well, they and many of their foreign friends do a ton to manufacture the will of the people as well. When wages have stagnated for 50 years and housing gets more expensive, it's easy to convince idiots that "a break from tradition" is the cause of their woes rather than corporate greed. Because criticizing corporate greed is communism, and we've wired into our society that it's "america vs communism" which really just means "america for corporations"
Florida is a solidly red state in which Trump is winning by a 13 point margin with most of the votes counted. The amendment has 57% to Trump's 56.2% at the time of this comment.
Some states require a simple majority, but Florida's ballot measures require 60%.
Gotta love those Pro-Choice/Trump votes.
That's what people don't understand. Pro-choice isn't a single-issue vote whereas pro-life is. That's why the GOP embraces the pro-lofe movement. They don't give the slightest damn about "unborn children" - they just want those sweet, sweet, guaranteed voters.
An abortion-rights centered campaign is general election poison because the pro-lofe voters will all vote against it, and the pro-choice voters aren't single-issue voters.
Look at it this way: if Trump were pro-choice and Harris were pro-life, but the candidates were otherwise unchanged, how many leftists would flip their vote to Trump? Because millions of pro-life voters would flip.
And this is made even worse when abortion is also its own separate item on the ballot, completely negating any sliver of advantage that could possibly be gained by a candidate by making abortion a central issue, since any right-leaning pro-choice voter can have it both ways.
You should have seen the non stop ads for the pro life movement....blatant lies and fear mongering. I don't understand how that level of misinformation is legal to put in an ad.