Who voted for/against the Twins stadium?
I don't know what I was doing (other than watching a pretty fair Pirates-Indians game) when I was inputting the Twins stadium vote into Votetracker at home yesterday, but the votes were all messed up. I even remember thinking, "Ann Lenczewski voted for the stadium???" as I inputted the obviously incorrect information. I should've listened to the inner voice. Anyway, they've now been corrected.
Judging, however, by the number of calls I got or were relayed about people calling their legislators angry that they voted either "for" or "against," the measure, I'm thinking that maybe this issue isn't quite the dead matter that we were led to believe in the last few days of the session.
We haven't started putting together the election results application yet, but I'm thinking we should build something that will show the vote on the stadium side-by-side with a lawmaker's election result. I remember CBS did that one year with the House Judiciary Committee vote on the impeachment of Richard Nixon. On election night they replayed what was a very solumn roll call vote, and as each representative was shown, a graphic showed the result of their re-election. It was, even for that long ago, one of those most compelling pieces of election night coverage I've ever seen.
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