Argh, both LA area newspapers are pissing me off.

[Initech]

I was reading both the LA Times and the Orange County register, both papers said the ballots on Prop. 73 and Prop. 75 were "too close to call".

But one look at this website (which is the official vote-tallying site run by the CA government) :

http://vote2005.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/00.htm

It shows Prop 73 failing by at least 330,000 votes! That is a HUGE margin!

It also shows Prop 75 failing by 500,000 votes! That is also a HUGE margin!

You think the conservative spin machine (which is set on category 5 in Los Angeles and Orange County) is well at work here?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Ummm.....That Paper Went To Press 18 Hours Ago.

You're looking at current real time results. It's a bit unfair to criticize their assessment when they had to publish, which was last night at Midnight.

[Initech]

5. Yeah, true. I saw the results at 11:00 last night...

And they all said "no". I guess that's why the paper reported different results.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

7. 11:00 Last Night Was Still Close

I'm not trying to show support for the Times, but it was not a wide margin last night, and I can't exactly criticize them for exercising caution in calling those particular races at that time.

[regnaD kciN]

2. They probably got "put to bed" early...

Remember, 75 was winning and 73 close through much of the evening. It wasn't until past midnight Pacific time that the tide finally turned, and I didn't feel safe writing 75 off until about 2:00-3:00 A.M. I suspect the deadline for both papers was earlier than that, and they were hedging their bets.

[splat]

3. That's last night's paper

They went to press before enough results were in to be entirely sure. (Dewey beats Truman)

Websites can be realtime.

This is a tech issue.

[driver8]

4. If my wife didn't like doing the crosswords, I would have cancelled

the LA Times a long time ago.

I get pissed off every time I read that rag.

[Initech]

6. So do I.

I could probably fill a landfill with the amount of shredded newspaper I've produced over the last couple of years.