Same here. As far as passing handily, compared to where? All the southern states around VA passed theirs in the 75%+ ranges except NC, and NC still beat VA with 61% even though it was 6 years after VA’s 57%.
Do you think in the 7 years after the VA amendment, if another popular vote was held on the issue, is that 57% likely to go up or down? I mean CA passed prop. 22 in 2000 by 61%. So in 6 years VA was already 4% worse than the CA of 6 years before. Not a positive sign, in my opinion.
Freegards
Hard to say... the 2006 midterms drove out a lot of GOPers, including George Allen... it could easily be classified as a "wave" election. Yet the pro-tradititional marriage sentiment won out. Had that year not seen such momentum on the democrat side, the differential would've been much more, IMO. I think it would still eke out a victory, albeit smaller.