The County Registrar has some data back on how communities throughout the County voted. It's not precinct-by-precinct yet (That usually takes a week or two), but they posted vote tallies by community at 5:54 am this morning. I've made some charts:
First up: Obama vs Romney. Not surprisingly, Mitt Romney won the SCV, but not by as much as I thought he would. I predicted 57-43. In reality it was 54-46:
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McKeon/Rogers
Looks like Lee Rogers performed poorly in Santa Clarita despite his heavy campaigning in this valley for almost 10 months. District-wide, he lost 54-44, but in the SCV, he lost 57-43.
You've got to ask yourself what McKeon has to do in these parts to lose his office? A photograph of McKeon with a dead woman or young boy? Would that work? Because I can't see anything else that would. In 2011 he basically gave us the finger over CEMEX, and that apparently didn't upset SCVers.
A reader reflects:
Zink/Pavley
The SCV was basically an afterthought in this highly important State Senate race, but as I noted a few weeks ago, we were getting pounded with mailers and calls from both Zink and Pavley.
Like it did in 2008, when a sliver of the SCV put Tony Strickland into office, this year we voted for Todd Zink, the Republican. But he lost the district overall:
Wilk/Headington
Predictably, Scott Wilk dominated the Assembly race in Santa Clarita:
Fat lot of good that Signal endorsement did Headington!
Measure 30
Two out of three Santa Clarita voters said no to Prop 30
I was a Yes vote. And I'm so glad it passed. Newhall School District didn't wait long to issue a press release saying that Prop 30 will stop the bleeding:
Given the SCV's high government employment, the results of this anti-union measure shouldn't surprise me, but they did. Only 96 votes separated Yes voters from No voters:
Measure 34 - Outlaw the Death Penalty
This is one measure I wish I had treated more on my blog. If passed, it would have outlawed the death penalty of course, but lost in the fine print was the fact that it would have allocated $100 million to law enforcement agencies to solve homicides.
Do you people know how many unsolved homicides there are in the SCV? I can rattle off five names of murder victims whose cases are cold and whose murderers are still out there. Victims waiting for justice from one hundred or so LASD Homicide detectives in downtown LA whose jurisdiction spans the county.
Alas, the SCV is a vengeful bunch. Measure 34 failed 65-35:
Measure 37 - GMO Food Labeling
The controversial Measure 37 would have required foods with genetically modified materials to be labeled as such. It failed in the SCV, probably because all the food we have here is genetically modified and comes from the same Sysco food factory. I voted an unenthusiastic Yes on this measure because I think information asymmetry is a problem in the food marketplace (producers have all the knowledge, consumers have little, even with nutrition labels).
So, now the results are in, what have we learned about Santa Clarita?
In the meantime, email and tell me what you think the results have taught us about Santa Clarita?
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How Santa Clarita Voted Yesterday
First up: Obama vs Romney. Not surprisingly, Mitt Romney won the SCV, but not by as much as I thought he would. I predicted 57-43. In reality it was 54-46:
McKeon/Rogers
Looks like Lee Rogers performed poorly in Santa Clarita despite his heavy campaigning in this valley for almost 10 months. District-wide, he lost 54-44, but in the SCV, he lost 57-43.
You've got to ask yourself what McKeon has to do in these parts to lose his office? A photograph of McKeon with a dead woman or young boy? Would that work? Because I can't see anything else that would. In 2011 he basically gave us the finger over CEMEX, and that apparently didn't upset SCVers.
A reader reflects:
What is ridiculous to me is that people keep electing Buck McKeon. I've asked over and over again, name one thing he has done for the SCV in 22 years and no one can come up with anything, yet they keep voting for him. How stupid is that?Rogers should hang his head high though. He ran the best Congressional campaign I've ever seen in CA-25.
Zink/Pavley
The SCV was basically an afterthought in this highly important State Senate race, but as I noted a few weeks ago, we were getting pounded with mailers and calls from both Zink and Pavley.
Like it did in 2008, when a sliver of the SCV put Tony Strickland into office, this year we voted for Todd Zink, the Republican. But he lost the district overall:
Wilk/Headington
Predictably, Scott Wilk dominated the Assembly race in Santa Clarita:
Fat lot of good that Signal endorsement did Headington!
Measure 30
Two out of three Santa Clarita voters said no to Prop 30
“We are grateful that the voting public kept us from deeper cuts by passing Prop 30,” said Christy Smith, president of Newhall’s school board. “However, we’ve lost over 20% of our revenue in the last five years and Prop 30 taxes will not restore those losses, the programs we’ve eliminated or the jobs that have been lost – Prop 30 taxes just keep us from being cut deeper.”Measure 32
“We are not out of the woods yet – just getting through them a little more easily,” said Marc Winger, superintendent.
Given the SCV's high government employment, the results of this anti-union measure shouldn't surprise me, but they did. Only 96 votes separated Yes voters from No voters:
This is one measure I wish I had treated more on my blog. If passed, it would have outlawed the death penalty of course, but lost in the fine print was the fact that it would have allocated $100 million to law enforcement agencies to solve homicides.
Do you people know how many unsolved homicides there are in the SCV? I can rattle off five names of murder victims whose cases are cold and whose murderers are still out there. Victims waiting for justice from one hundred or so LASD Homicide detectives in downtown LA whose jurisdiction spans the county.
Alas, the SCV is a vengeful bunch. Measure 34 failed 65-35:
The controversial Measure 37 would have required foods with genetically modified materials to be labeled as such. It failed in the SCV, probably because all the food we have here is genetically modified and comes from the same Sysco food factory. I voted an unenthusiastic Yes on this measure because I think information asymmetry is a problem in the food marketplace (producers have all the knowledge, consumers have little, even with nutrition labels).
So, now the results are in, what have we learned about Santa Clarita?
- Barack Obama is still well-liked here: He lost only three points from his 2008 totals
- The SCV is vengeful: As a good western horse town should be
- McKeon is invincible: No wonder the national Democratic party didn't invest anything here. The district redraw didn't help. If Rogers hadn't run a strong campaign, I bet we would have seen a 65-35 race as we did in '10, '08, and '06.
- The SCV is more union-friendly than I thought
- In a town that pines for
Cheesecake FactoryApplebee's above all else, we're happy being ignorant about our food, thank you very much
More to come when the precinct results arrive. I hope to dive in and reveal how each neighborhood voted!
In the meantime, email and tell me what you think the results have taught us about Santa Clarita?
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