A Prop 8 challenge for swankers

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OC Voter turn out way down.

What a surprise! The Orange County Registrar says as of 3 p.m. only 28 percent of those eligible to vote have gone to the polls here. If you turn the calendar back to the last general election in 2004, there was a turnout of 44 percent at the same time of day. The comparisons mean either there will be a huge rush this evening, or voters in the OC have become suddenly complacent.

The oddity is that we saw dozens of folks driving to the Registrar's Santa Ana office this morning as if hell or high water couldn't keep them from voting.

What's it all mean?

We'll know better after the absentee ballots are counted at 8 p.m. Those voters tend to skew conservative, so let' s wait and see which way the political winds are blowing once the polls close.

GET OUT AND VOTE IF YOU LIVE IN OC!