Posted on 11/11/2008 9:51:12 AM PST by SmithL
Supporters of same-sex marriage rights are fuming over California voters' approval of Proposition 8, which would place a ban on such marriages in the state constitution especially since in other respects voters showed a somewhat left-of-center bent, including a massive victory by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Ironically, however, a mathematical analysis of voting and exit poll data indicates very strongly that it was exactly that pro-Obama surge that spelled victory for Proposition 8.
When Proposition 8's passage first became apparent, it was widely assumed that hundreds of thousands of first-time or occasional voters had turned out to vote for Obama, then left the rest of their ballots blank, thus allowing more conservative voters to dominate ballot measures.
In fact, however, there was very little voting drop-off. There are still some late absentee and provisional ballots to be counted, but as of Monday, 10.96 million votes had been tallied in the presidential race and 10.85 million for and against Proposition 8.
The only conclusion, therefore, is that as Obama was running up a 2.6 million-vote victory over Republican John McCain in California twice the margins by which Democrats won in 2000 and 2004 a great many Obama voters were also voting for Proposition 8, sponsored by a very conservative religious coalition.
Proposition 8, in fact, garnered 1.6 million more votes than McCain received. And, it's apparent, many of those votes enough to make the difference came from African American and Latino voters drawn to the polls by Obamamania.
An overwhelming, but not surprising, 94 percent of the former supported Obama, exit polling indicated, while 74 percent of Latinos voted for the winner. But 70 percent of African Americans also voted for Proposition 8, as did 53 percent of Latino voters.
Turnout made the difference.
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“Oft Evil will shalt Evil mar”
And thank God for it!
“Prop 8 will be overturned.”
If so, it would have to be done by the SCOTUS which, in the process, would have to reverse its 1972 decision that left issues relating to gay marriage to the states.
“Rochester get the car and never mind that mummy with the knife.”
If they had the original wording, in other words, it would have passed by even wider margins.
What is wrong with the white people of Cali? Why do they want to destroy traditional marriage?
A good many who want to save it have fled.
Too funny! Obama is the one responsible for Prop 8 passing! I LOVE it!!!
LOL. Or Amos and Andy, Buckwheat, etc. How come the Hollywood homosexuals never had to apologize for what they did to the blacks in the motion picture industry? Where's the money for reparations?
Homosexual activists resorted to using the heavy-handed and rather lowbrow tactic of trying to hijack and redefine an English word, “marriage”, simply because they feel a sociopathic need to “stick it” to normal, traditional Americans.
The sodomites and lesbians were not satisfied to mind their own business and graciously accept the “civil union” as their gift from liberal state legislatures. No. They needed an ongoing “culture war” to constantly feed their childish martyrdom complex and the “civil union” language didn’t cause the uproar and the outrage they had hoped for. They had to find a new way to really get under the skin of the “breeders”.
Ahh.... let’s demand “marriage”. That’ll frost ‘em!
Personally, I never gave a rat’s behind what the sodomites did to each other in the privacy of their own hot tubs, but now I want them to lose on every issue that is of importance to them because it was they, not me, who declared war. To hell with them all.
When Proposition 8’s passage first became apparent, it was widely assumed that hundreds of thousands of first-time or occasional voters had turned out to vote for Obama, then left the rest of their ballots blank, thus allowing more conservative voters to dominate ballot measures.
Well, that’s just too flippin’ bad isn’t it!!!
Stoopid is as stoopid does...
It's a demonic thing. You wouldn't understand.
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