SJSU News Archive
Date: 11/04/2008
Please take the time to vote in this historic election. Here's how the San Jose Mercury News summed things up: "From picking a new president to weighing in on the welfare of pregnant pigs, there's a lot on California voters' plates. They include groundbreaking social and fiscal measures asking if gay marriage should remain legal, and if it's time to sell nearly $10 billion in bonds for a bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles ...
In Santa Clara County, key questions are whether to raise sales taxes by one-eighth-cent to pay for BART-to-San José operations and whether San José wants to update its utility users tax to include text-messages. We haven't seen a presidential contest this riveting in four decades. Voter angst and the chance to make history in the White House with either ticket likely will bring out the highest percentage of registered voters in three decades, experts predict."