Holy shit. Some facts about the loss in Washington to label GMOs

[Andy823]

50. It was the scare to farmers on the east side that worked

I live on the east side and there were a lot of TV spots where farmers, at least they said they were, were against it. They said it would cause more "regulations" that farmers had to comply with, and they also used the "increase in food costs" meme. Any time "more regulations" come up here on the east side, the republican majority over here gets out to vote. This side of the state has to put up with reps like Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Doc Hastings who is my rep. Both of them are nothing more than puppets for the right wing agenda.

It also doesn't help that the minority of voters who are not republicans tend to, as you said, be low information voters who just don't seem to get out to vote, plus the republican voters tend to simply listen to the right wing talking heads on fox and the radio for all the information, so they are "misinformed voters", or simply "gullible" sheep.

What I would like to see are laws in states like Washington that ban outside money from influencing state issues. There is already to much money influencing the national elections, states should stand and put a stop to it on state and local levels.