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by tptacek 1220 days ago
They did not vote in legalization representatives, because the issue had very little salience in elections. Even when serious pollsters run issue polls (many highly-publicized polls are commissioned by advocacy groups, and their outcomes are a foregone conclusion), the poll generally measures the issue in a vacuum, but doesn't come close to assessing what people will actually motivate people to vote.