🤦‍♀️ my fellow Americans why are you so ignorant.

This is a pretty notable exception to the blue wave. Newsom seems to be setting himself up as a centrist/independent/republican-lite runner for the presidency-- hoping to siphon off republican voters to his campaign for all the Democrats he loses in the process. This very seldom works. Its always a hail mary and pisses off the Democratic party base.

The uninformed voter strikes again!

Wtf California!?

California is its own beast.

Peoples lives have not really been getting better because of federal politics, but moreso Newsom shutting the door on progressive legislation.

Blue voters haven’t had a strong urgency to show up since the state is already blue, so people feel that showing up to vote has less impact. Big tech companies are spending millions on ads to confuse voters. Many of the measures also were seemingly written in a confusing way.

What doesn’t get mentioned more is culturally it feels like people have been fending more for themselves with all these cost of living increases. People drive and act selfishly constantly. There’s a noticeable difference in the way people from SoCal or NorCal are living compared to say Oregon or Washington. I would say people I’ve interacted with living in the later two seem much happier on average compared to the slog of the freeway ‘go, go, go’ atmosphere plaguing California.

I think the national wave of blue will do a lot of good for reminding Californians that there is hope out there. Plus, the new governor may be a bit more likely than Newsom to let some progressive legislation pass.

So many people feel hopeless in California right now. The prospects of owning a home, starting a family, and/or retiring becomes less possible by the day even if you have a good job as a young person. People still are voting, but without the progressive policies that are desperately needed it’s becoming tough. Hopefully we see progressive federal policies make it through since that could do a lot of good at making life better for Californians.

Also, California desperately needs a Mamdani style person to come to light. Someone that can motivate sweeping progressive changes through passion and care.

I wouldn't trust this yet, only 62% of estimated votes have been counted so far.

I checked the results 24 and 12 hours ago, and it was then at 60% and 61% respectively. Each time I've checked, the gap has been closed by 0.6%.

Gruesome Newsom : Mission Accomplished!👍

Fuck it I guess I'll become a art dealer then the fuck?

Weird, only 65% of votes reported.

Said it a million times... it's going to take violence.

Why would 42 prohibit future wealth taxes? We just need an initiative that changes that back, right? Could that and the tax be all in one initiative or does it need to be split up.

Prop 42.

That bill was specific about savings, retirement, and assets. For anyone.

Of course voters wouldn't want that to be taxed.

It includes things that should not be taxed.

It specifically added items that apply to the average person and they don't want themselves taxed. It was a sleazy way to get people to vote to protect billionaires from additional taxes.