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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 ($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... https://www.latimes.com/projects/props-california-2020-elect...

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58 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.

Okay 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.

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