and television. tonight the early returns showed the state evenly divided at 9:00 with 8% of the pray sinks precincts reporting. the measure was winning 50 tw to 48% 52 to 48%, but it was 54 to 49 and by 10:00 it was close to 50/50. the former state legislator is the co chair on the yes on 8 campaign. i expected that it would be a toss up. i don t believe we are going to know until every ballot is counted. first of all it is a low turnout. secondly we are sort of david against goliath. tobacco taxes have been proven to reduce smoking. opponents say prop 29 would hurt the economy by taking $735 million a year out of pockets of california smokers. i am hoping that it is a no. this is one of those things that you don t want to see passed. we have too many in california, and we have so many other pressing problems diverting money to something like this is wrong when it is needed elsewhere in the state. right now it is 50/50, but it doesn t bowed well for prop 29 bod