[Peace-discuss] poverty and anti-war referenda pass overwhelmingly!

[Stuart Levy]

	  *all four* advisory referenda
   passed by large, mostly overwhelming, margins.

In Champaign:

  Poverty referendum:        71% Yes, 29% No   !!!
  Military Commissions Act:  68% Yes, 32% No
  De-fund Iraq War:          61% Yes, 39% No

   (Even in the most conservative Champaign district
    I could find, the Iraq War referendum, the least
    popular of these, came out about 50-50.)

In Urbana/Cunningham:

  No Unauthorized Iran War:  81% Yes, 19% No
  Detainees' Rights/M.C.A.:  79% Yes, 21% No
  De-fund Iraq War:          69% Yes, 31% No

And, about 90% of those who voted at all, in either city,
also voted on the referenda.  So people noticed the
issues and cared about them.

No longer can the Champaign City Council say that the
people of Champaign prefer that they continue their
neglect of the poorest people of this town.

Good job, all!


Julia Rietz won with about 81% of the Dem. State's Attorney
vote, vs. Alfred Ivy's 19%.   Though disappointing, he surely
has had a tremendous influence on the kinds of questions
that are getting raised -- and how they're getting answered,
or conspicuously not answered -- in the the S.A. campaign.


Also, Giraldo Rosales is now the Dem. candidate for
County Board District 6.

The Urbana Park District tax increase failed by about 1%.

The Dem. Pres. race in the county went about 74/24 Obama/Clinton,
with about 1.5% going for Edwards and 0.6% for Kucinich
(one of those 132 votes was mine).  And of the Dem. 
delegates, about 1% went for those four listing Edwards
by their names, and 0.7% for the one who listed Richardson.
(Anyone know what that association means in Illinois?)

Cynthia McKinney won handily among the Greens,
and McCain did fractionally better than Romney in the county,
about 37%/36%/17%/7% for McCain/Romney/Huckabee/Paul.

  - Stuart