The pattern of referenda: It is tempting to look into the statistics of referenda and try to come to some conclusion to take advangage of strategic voting. For example having several items on the one ballot was very successful in 1977, when three referenda where passed in one hit.
Rightly or wrongly, I believe that successful change depends upon the merits the proposal. I do not know if I am right, but I believe that a brilliant republican proposal would not have been sunk by a poor preamble.
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