2012 ballot measures

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'll be voting for Questions 1 and 3 and emphatically against Question 2, which is odious even by the standards of ill-conceived ballot questions.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'll be voting for Questions 1 and 3 and emphatically against Question 2, which is odious even by the standards of ill-conceived ballot questions.

That's about euthanasia, right? What's your beef with it?

Well, my basic beef with it is that it's euthanasia, but there's been a huge amount of concern within the Massachusetts medical establishment that the law that it's approving among other problems doesn't actually require witnesses at the time of death.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'll be voting for Questions 1 and 3 and emphatically against Question 2, which is odious even by the standards of ill-conceived ballot questions.

That's about euthanasia, right? What's your beef with it?

Well, my basic beef with it is that it's euthanasia,

Would you be opposed to the legalization of euthanasia for terminally ill patients who had been found mentally sound and who would be euthanized in a controlled environment?

Much less strongly than the hot mess of medical irresponsibility that's on the ballot here, but probably, yes.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Auto repairs and medical marijuana sailed right on through, and assisted suicide is looking on track to fail by a very, very narrow margin. A good night in Massachusetts overall.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I have to say, even though the margins on the Voter ID and Gay Marriage Ban amendments' defeats here were similar, the maps are soooooo fascinatingly different. In fact outside the Twin Cities and urban liberal outstate areas the two almost ran as inverses of each other. To put things into perspective. I'll do more of an analysis later but for now here are the maps (green = pass, orange = fail):

Marriage:


Voter ID:

God bless the Iron Range.

Hashemite, politico.com has county results for almost every ballot measure of significance.