The Voting Age Population Census (VAPC) for Arizona (2013) is 5,009,180 or 75.6% of the population.
The Secretary of State reports registered voters for Tuesday’s election totalled 3,235,963.
According to the Secretary of State, as of 4:18 AM on November 5, 2014:
Governor
Doug Ducey (R) 619,383 53.83%
Fred DuVal (D) 475,431 41.32%
619,382 votes out of 5,009,180 voting age adults in Arizona. 619,382 votes out of 3,235,963 registered voters.
As I have said, elections are not decided by those who vote. Elections are decided by those who do not vote. A very small minority of voters get to decide the fate of millions of Arizonans who cannot be bothered to vote. You get the government you deserve.
steve I own my own business I am in fact a capitalist wage slave master! who is there in arizona for me to envy? I went to a meeting once wearing my old worn jacket and someone asked me why I was not dressed up. I said who is there in arizona for me to impress ?
You shouldn’t envy anyone! You are a person who stands on your own and depends on no one else to protect them. Your last several posting you seemed to come unhinged because the Democrats, once again, ignored the hispanic vote. I can tell you that you will wait a long time before you see any respect from the Democrats because they consider you a done deal. Like the black, where are you going to go. You are afraid of the GOP and that only leaves the Democrats…and they know it. They know that all they have to do is keep you afraid of the GOP and they have where they want you. It is sad, but true.
I, too, own my own business and I will tell you that the Democrat Party is the biggest threat to that business that exists. I am big enough (200+ employees) that there a lot to tax, unionize, demonize and take away, yet I am small enough there isn’t much I can do about it except try and keep the GOP in power. They present some other problems, but they ARE business friendly and believe in the Bill of Rights.
Good luck to you in your business! I wish you all good fortune!
I’m not convinced that the Democrats have a monolithic hold on the Latino vote. Yes, the majority of Latinos in Arizona lean Democratic. If the Democrats don’t pay attention to Latino issues, there could be some rightward movement. I wouldn’t count on it, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility.
I don’t know that the hispanic vote would to the right (although it should since their family values are conservative) but I could easily see them forming another party. They are very good at organizing, they have a general cultural identity, they are well distributed around the Country and they often produce great leaders, so why shouldn’t they organize a new party. Granted, that cultural identity might be overstated because Cubans, Mexicans, Pueto Ricans, Nicaraguans, etc., all feel a unique sense of pride in their individual cultures, but they might set that aside to gain political advantage.
We live in interesting times, no doubt.
“The fault dear brutus is not in are stars but in ourselves!” I kept e-mailing terry get off dark money and appeal to hispanics ;but got nowhere. Don’t blame others for this loss blame yourselves next time latinos si rich old white men no! As someone who trys to be a loyal democrat I thought ok I will try and support these rich old white men well you see where that got me! Everyday in arizona 100 hispanic kids turn 18 voting age and add dreamers and thats another 50 a day and 15 evil old republicans die each day and are now burning in hell!
“…and 15 evil old republicans die each day and are now burning in hell!”
Now begins the Monday morning quarterbacking, when the people who had THE answer all along step forward to blame others for the losses. The truth is that you have no more to do with the win or the loss that anyone else. You are one vote and that’s it.
As to your quote at the top…I hope that was just hyperbole. If it really expresses how you feel, you have bigger problems that a lost election.
the other thing i notices, while canvassing is how many people on the PEVL list simply could not remember if they had received their early ballot ,or had misplaced it. i mean a LOT of people. i do not have much faith that many of these people were motivated or organized enough to go fill out a provisional ballot.
i wonder if this is possibly a big problem with PEVL. i would like to see the number of mail in ballots sent out compared to how many were returned.
i think the ‘dark money’ campaign focus was weird. i understand the issue and i think they were trying to simplify a message and stay on message,but the problem?
1. it sounds like a focus group came up with it.2. what does a voter do with’dark money’? that only translates as ‘they have more dark money than we do’ to most people, hardly something to motivate you to the polls. 3. how do you explain ‘dark money’ as an issue to a latino voter who might have extended family who has to rely on the ‘black market’ to do their banking, register a car, etc? the phrase is just too nebulous and vague.
even to me, a motivated democrat, i would see the ‘dark money ‘ stuff and go ,’so’? there are plenty of issues that fire people up. you need to fire them up to get them to vote. i am sorry we lost . we had some very good candidates.
You are remarkedly insightful. The dark money issue was dead on arrival…no one cares. In fact, all of the issues that usually work for Democrats, and upon which they rely, wouldn’t have stirred a dust devil. The real issues were ones Democrats couldn’t allow themselves to see.
rich old white men were to busy trying to appeal to republicans instead of young hispanics. duval was to busy putting up signs with his face on them what an egomaniac. young hispanics are democratic partys future no more rich old white men running for state wide office young hispanic SI!
After wading through the poor grammar I determined that you are jealous of white men with money. Right? Are you waiting for the Democrat Party to give you your “fair” share of the money? Did you go to school to learna trade or a skill? To college for a degree? What have you done to become one of those rich old men of which you are so envious? Or is it you’ve decided you can’t fo it and feel the need to punish others whi have made?
So many quextions. So few answers.
Yes, and this needs to stop. As much as the outcome of this election infuriates and terrifies me, I say that the voters and non voters need to be held responsible for this. We can turn to them and say THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR ! Even by not voting, they made a conscious choice. I suspect that there will be a lot of pain and heartache for a lot of AZ families starting soon.
Surely you are joking when you say this election terrifies you! The anger I can get, but terror? It’s only an election. In two years you get another shot.