I really hope the mandatory minimums doesn't pass. It frustrates me so much that two separate crimes/issues get conflated together.

The medical marijuana measure isn't quite there; poorly written or not, I still think we have a few years before a solid measure will pass.

And I really see 71 passing. It almost seems like a given, to me.

Get your shit together Multnomah County! I can only vote so many times before they catch me

@ Barney: It's 12:39pm! Do you ???

"It seems you're forgetting that voters will be looking closely at the price tag for everything, "

Pffft. Voters only look at the "price tag" on anything that involves a property tax hike. On things that involve massive government spending but do not have immediate, personal $$$ implications (Measure 73), they never, ever think about the price tag. Pretty much sums up the GOP in general. Taxes: bad. Massive spending on pet GOP projects: always good.

I for one welcome our new union treasurer, waitress hating, Washington state living, NBA overlord. As a state budget dependent worker I look forward to four more years of furloughs.

There's still a typo in the headline. I try to let them slide, but it's the headline and we're six comments in! Is that the line? Is it okay to point them out, then?

I think we're all full of shit.

You can drop your ballot at McDonalds?! It's like having everything that's good and bad about America all in one place.

I was going to vote, until Randy Quad told me that the only vote that counts is the one cast by Lloyd Braun.
Uh oh.. now I'm gonna get wacked.

Are we writing anyone special in for the judge positions? I figure if we all vote for "lizard people" or "sarah mirk" then maybe it would show up in the results?

We probably could have gotten Sarah elected to a judgeship if we'd thought of it more than 28 hours from the deadline.

Lost me after the Reed Professor shared his thoughts. No offense.
P.S. Dudley is going to kill us all!!! AH!!!

My somewhat gloomy prediction:

Kitz wins, but barely, since Dudley received virtually no positive press or endorsements in the past three weeks, but Oregonians aren't exactly thrilled about Kitz being back. Republicans reclaim Oregon Senate. Hughes' "I LOVE JOBZ" campaign resonants strongly and he cruises by 8+ points over Stacey (sadly). 71, 73 and 74 all pass, trimet and OHS are out of luck (when both progressives and The Oregonian are on the case of Trimet for various budgetary malfeasances, some of them legitimate, I just can't see voters handing them more money, even for Grandma's weekly pickup).

The lack of a youth vote dooms a lot of the progessive measures, as the "i'm older and I pay taxes and am worried about employment" demographic is more-largely represented without all those pesky first-time-voters-for-Obama mucking up the electoral process and downticket voting for kickass Oregonian Housers like Barton.