It really is a sad day re: Prop 8. I had really just assumed it would fail... not that I could vote on it or anything.
What's interesting, though, is that I read an article saying that it may be a downstream effect of Obama's get-out-the-vote efforts... apparently a large number of black voters voted for Prop 8, and they think a lot of these folks wouldn't have voted if not for Obama. We experienced a similar effect in my home county, where some of our best judges were beaten by, among other things: a) a man who has never practiced law before and ran solely because he didn't like the way the sitting judge handled his divorce case; and b) a woman who specifically said she didn't want the job and didn't campaign. The link between all of these strange winners? They were endorsed by the black caucus.
I don't know what the significance of all that is, and as much as I hate these results, I'm still glad we got Obama elected, but it is interesting academically.
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What's interesting, though, is that I read an article saying that it may be a downstream effect of Obama's get-out-the-vote efforts... apparently a large number of black voters voted for Prop 8, and they think a lot of these folks wouldn't have voted if not for Obama. We experienced a similar effect in my home county, where some of our best judges were beaten by, among other things: a) a man who has never practiced law before and ran solely because he didn't like the way the sitting judge handled his divorce case; and b) a woman who specifically said she didn't want the job and didn't campaign. The link between all of these strange winners? They were endorsed by the black caucus.
I don't know what the significance of all that is, and as much as I hate these results, I'm still glad we got Obama elected, but it is interesting academically.