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'California voters absolutely own voting for proposition 22' To be fair they set a new record for money spent on supporting a ballot measure in state history (
by HNthrow22 6y ago
'California voters absolutely own voting for proposition 22'
To be fair they set a new record for money spent on supporting a ballot measure in state history ($225m) and it still only passed with 58%.
If you divide the $225m spent lobbying this by the 9,339,069 votes for it comes out to $23.98 per vote.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative_(2020) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
https://www.latimes.com/projects/props-california-2020-election-money/ https://www.latimes.com/projects/props-california-2020-elect...
- unishark 6y ago58 percent (closer to 59 percent in fact) can only be described as a blowout. Maybe if they spent less it would simply have been closer. Meg Whitman spent something like $180M for the governor's race, and still lost badly. You can't sell voters something they don't want to buy.
- SilasX 6y agoOkay but the less of a difference (you're claiming) it made, the more (it means) they had to pay per vote. So like, if it was going to be 55% in-favor regardless, then they only "bought" 3% of voters, which would mean having paid $23.98 * 58/(58-55)= $463/vote.