Originally Posted By metalman One result of this years election was record turnout for black Americans, the vast majority coming out specifically to vote for Obama. Unfortunately, they were, by far, the demographic most in favor of prop 8: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#CAI01p1" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20...#CAI01p1</a>
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I think you can pretty much blame black churches for that. Very disappointing.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin From what I've seen here in CA it seems to be due to the old guard conservative whites. Actually I've only seen whites on both side...
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I was talking to the guy at the coffee shop this morning. He's a young guy (24ish), he said he didn't vote. He didn't care for McCain or Obama, and said the only thing that mattered to him was Prop. 8. He just didn't bother to go out to vote for that one thing. I told him he can not make a difference if he doesn't vote. HOw many others didn't bother??!!
Originally Posted By Darkbeer As for Prop 8, interesting to note in California that the Presidential Race went 61% to Obama and McCain got 37%. But 52.4% voted Yes on 8 compared to 47.6% No on 8. <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1261975,gay-marriage-california110508.article" target="_blank">http://www.suntimes.com/news/e....article</a> >>Exit polls for The Associated Press found that Proposition 8 received critical support from black voters who flocked to the polls to support Barack Obama for president. About seven in 10 blacks voted in favor of the ban, while Latinos also supported it and whites were split. << So even if everyone who voted for McCain voted Yes on 8 (and I know that wasn't true, but I presume the majority of McCain voters did vote Yes), you still have to have 1 in 5 Obama voters choosing to vote Yes on 8 in the election, probably even higher.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Very sad. But perhaps by the time the issue reaches SCOTUS, Obama will have appointed enough justices that we will have the equivalent of the Loving decision. So those who voted for Obama who voting yes for bigotry as well (yes, ironic) will get a double irony.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< He didn't care for McCain or Obama, and said the only thing that mattered to him was Prop. 8. >>> Then why didn't he vote just on Prop 8 and leave the rest of the ballot blank? A lot of people don't realize that you can do this. I've done this a few times when I had not a clue on which judge or water commissioner was the best, rather than pick at random or based on which name looked better.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney ^^I told him I left a couple of things blank and that he should have gone and voted for what mattered to him.
