Two steps forward, one step back.
To answer Mark's question.
Tuesday night was pretty euphoric. I am sure my experience was replicated everywhere else in the country [well, maybe not in Oklahoma]. A real sense of communal celebration.
But for anybody following the race, the results were a foregone conclusion as of a month ago. The subprime mortgage crisis sunk McCain. And having a running mate who didn't know the countries in NAFTA couldn't have helped either.
The real surprise was waking up this morning and discovering that Prop 8 passed in California. And a similar measure in Arizona, when it had failed in 2006. And Florida. And an even worse measure in Arkansas.
Talk about a real buzzkill.
Don't get me wrong. This election was a resounding success by every possible measurement.
But it was also a lot harder to post an OBAMACELEBRATION.gif.
[Also, on a personal - and possibly heretical - level, 2006 might have been a bit more "Yippie Kay Yay" because it was so uncertain and such a condemnation of the Bush administration. And because of this.]
Tuesday night was pretty euphoric. I am sure my experience was replicated everywhere else in the country [well, maybe not in Oklahoma]. A real sense of communal celebration.
But for anybody following the race, the results were a foregone conclusion as of a month ago. The subprime mortgage crisis sunk McCain. And having a running mate who didn't know the countries in NAFTA couldn't have helped either.
The real surprise was waking up this morning and discovering that Prop 8 passed in California. And a similar measure in Arizona, when it had failed in 2006. And Florida. And an even worse measure in Arkansas.
Talk about a real buzzkill.
Don't get me wrong. This election was a resounding success by every possible measurement.
But it was also a lot harder to post an OBAMACELEBRATION.gif.
[Also, on a personal - and possibly heretical - level, 2006 might have been a bit more "Yippie Kay Yay" because it was so uncertain and such a condemnation of the Bush administration. And because of this.]
posted by d l wright at 11/05/2008 09:41:00 PM
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There's a washington post article today that says 7 of 10 black voters in CA voted yes on Prop 8. The same demographic was 93% for Obama.
Also interesting to me is that pretty much every anti-choice/anti-abortion measure failed, while every anti-gay measure passed. I guess the ideological divide is somewhere between those two issues.
there's a nation article that sort of refutes that people of color are responsible for prop 8's victory.
i thought brad's church was responsible for the prop 8 victory. they bank rolled it.
yeah that too. although your state donated a ton of money to yes on 8 too.
http://www.mormonsstoleourrights.com/
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