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Casino: Huge Anti-Casino Vote A Victory For Us
Casino Free Philadelphia released the vote totals of its “citizens ballot” yesterday live on its webcam. In a shocker, most of the people who voted decided the casinos should be kept 1500 feet from residences and churches and whatever. Exactly 13,319 votes were cast in the election, and 12,592 voted yes on the measure. That’s just a shade under 95 percent of the votes for the yes side. Not surprising, since there were only a small number of people (727) stupid enough to register and then vote no. Despite the 95 percent vote in favor of the measure, a Foxwoods spokesperson said it was a resounding victory for the casinos:
If a 95 percent vote against casinos doesn’t prove Philadelphians want casinos, then I don’t know what does. Anti-casino group claims ‘landslide’ [Daily News] |
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The Metro today makes a good comment of pointing out that the anti-casino measure only beat Milton Street by a couple thousand votes, 12 thousand to 10 thousand.
And Fox 29 reported that we had over 68% turnout at each precinct. No other ballot question got even close to such attention at the polls. It’s not the raw numbers, it’s the percentage that matters. If this had been left on the ballot, it would have won by a landslide.