I respectfully disagree with you, Nathan. While many rightwingers were indeed pushing this bill (and might be closet racists), I believe we'll all be better off when the government stops tracking and dividing us based on the color of our skin.

More than any other issue in this election, I was concerned about this. As you said, if you can't count something, you can't determine if there is a problem.

As for John Q, I too hope for a day when we will no longer count things by race, but we are clearly a long way away from the day that this might be prudent.

I think it's stupid to have all this initiatives. I love the way we are set up as states and everyone can experiment with doing things differently. I'd like to thank California for showing one Georgian that initiatives are dumb way to run a government.

I think this is a stupid initiative as well and I would have voted against it.

What's pretty ironic is that the recall provision was put into place to serve as essentially a citizens' impeachment tool, to be used against public officials accused of corruption or criminal wrongdoing. Yet Californians have used it to recall a governor who has been accused of no such thing and replace him with a man who may be guilty of criminal wrongdoing. Go figure.