Reply #81: I'm not real familiar with IL but there ain't no way you'd get anything through AZ in that timeframe

[Hello_Kitty]

State ballot initiatives are voted on every 2 years here.

How many women, Tempest?

As for all the other present votes there are perfectly valid explanations for them as well from what I understand.

Every state has a unique political situation in their lege. In my state we have a thing known as a strike-all. It enables a legislator to strike out all the language in a particular bill and insert entirely different language. Most of the time the title of the bill remains the same. So it's possible for a state legislator to vote for something called the Free All Child Rapists From Prison Bill, when the text of the bill deals with decontaminating drinking water. Imagine the hay that an opponent in another kind of race could make of that.

I really hated seeing Edwards (whom I like) and Clinton (whom I don't) ganging up on Obama over this. Especially Edwards, as I expect better from him than I do from a lying, conniving Clinton.