Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Five Ballot Measures to Watch Next Week

Out of dozens of state initiatives, a few may have national resonance this year.

October 26, 2020 at 12:06 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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It’s not just candidates on the ballot next Tuesday. As usual, there are a host of ballot measures — 120 statewide ones, plus various local questions. Daniel Nichanian’s What’s on the Ballot has a great list of the major issues; for more detail, including why we have fewer initiatives than normal in this cycle, see here. These are the top five I’m watching for this time: