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Iowa Election Day Open Thread

by: Juan Melli

Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 03:50:02 PM EST

Governor Corzine signed legislation today that prohibits the sale of yo-yo waterballs. It's the best thing to happen to NJ since the fight to ban aluminum bats.

The Assembly and Senate judiciary committees unanimously approved bills to enhance the state's hate crime and school bullying laws. The bill will add "gender identity or expression" to our hate crime laws in addition to strengthening the laws for all minority groups. Update: it just passed the Senate unanimously, 35-0.

An Assembly panel passed legislation that would establish the first CO2 cap-and-trade program in the country - the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiaitive (RGGI) - an alliance of 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. "Under the RGGI agreement, carbon dioxide emissions from power plants would be capped at current levels starting in 2009, with states eventually reducing emissions incrementally to achieve a 10-percent reduction by 2019."

Corzine's school funding plan made it through the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. Retired Supreme Court Justice Gary Stein wrote to legislators that "a vote in favor of the bill is, in reality, an invitation to a series of lawsuits that will embroil the state and the advocates for for the groups that oppose the bill in contentious litigation that will last for many years."

A trio of bills aimed at reducing gun trafficking passed an Assembly committee today. The bills would explicitly make gun trafficking illegal and make carrying (concealed or not) an unlawful firearm illegal. A third bill takes aim at bulk purchasers who sell weapons on the black market.

The Village Voice says that in the last 10 years, Jersey City's Little India "has bloomed like a rosewater lassi."

There were 99 murders in Newark in 2007, a slight drop from 107 in 2006.

Iowa votes in a few hours. My uneducated guess is: Obama: 35, Edwards: 32, Clinton 30. What are your Iowa predictions?

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Anyone in Trenton? (0.00 / 0)

Wondering if the Senate acted on the National Popular Vote legislation today - I haven't heard anything.

by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:00:56 PM UTC

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It passed today with 21 votes. n/t (0.00 / 0)

by: PocketAces @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 22:36:13 PM UTC

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Iowa: (0.00 / 0)

Democrats:
Edwards-31%
Obama-29%
Clinton-22%

Republicans:
Huckabee-31%
Romney-24%
McCain-17%

by: Matthew Jordan @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:01:38 PM UTC

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Iowa (4.00 / 1)

Edwards: 36%
Obama: 28%
Clinton: 26%

by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:02:35 PM UTC

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Oh yeah, them (3.00 / 1)

Romney: 30%
Huckster: 28%
McCain: 20%

by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:04:22 PM UTC

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Predictions (0.00 / 0)

On the Republican race, my thoughts exactly! What are the odds? :)

For the Dems:

Obama: 32
Edwards: 29
Clinton: 24

by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:11:35 PM UTC

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Three cheers for RGGI (0.00 / 0)

The RGGI is huge. While New Jersey's Global Warming Response Act was a great step, the reality is one state can't make a difference by itself. But, New Jersey, working closely with states in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region can have a real impact in the fight to preserve our environment

by: Brian McGinnis @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 21:13:26 PM UTC

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My Prediction on Who Will Win (0.00 / 0)

My Prediction

Can't be any worse than what we have in the White House currently, right?

by: Joshua Henne @ Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 22:11:52 PM UTC

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Precincts Reporting: 1507 of 1781 (0.00 / 0)

Senator Barack Obama : 36.70%
Senator John Edwards : 30.19%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 30.03%
Governor Bill Richardson : 2.02%
Senator Joe Biden : 0.93%
Uncommitted : 0.11%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.03%
Precincts Reporting: 1507 of 1781

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

by: FogerRox @ Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 02:56:08 AM UTC

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Kudos (4.00 / 1)

Good predicting, Juan!

by: tracey @ Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 00:47:05 AM UTC

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