O'Brien's campaign tanked tonight despite last minute campaigning by Clinton yesterday. He warned voters, ''Don't you be Nader-ed again!" Humorously enough, the O'Brien campaign took this warning to heart and pasted "Stein=Romney" signs to O'Brien's campaign posters. Even if all those who cast their votes for Stein picked O'Brien instead, it just wouldn't have helped.
And don't worry, we're still Taxachusetts! The state-wide ballot question that would abolish the income tax in Massachusetts was defeated tonight, but very narrowly (right now, 54-46). Curious, indeed!
Here's the day-after report on the tax question.
I found the fate of the income tax proposition to be pretty interesting. Last week I was arguing with a Libertarian friend of mine; I felt that the Libertarians were shooting themselves in the foot by pushing a radicial approach to the income tax question. It would have been more palatable if it had required a slow phase-out of the tax. As is, it's pretty easy to say "you want to cut the budget in half all at once? what are you, stoopid?"
But even with that easy counter-argument at hand, the proposition came pretty close to passing. I'm not sure if that means that I was right and the Libertarians would have succeeded with a gradual approach, or that I was wrong since they came so close to succeeding with the undiluted version.
Surprising result, at any rate.
Posted by: Bryant on November 6, 2002 09:39 AM
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