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Final election thoughts:
California, I'm disappointed. I expected the other two gay marriage bans in other states to go through, but I thought you would vote for sanity and compassion and human rights and quash yours. You didn't. It was close, but too many of you were bigoted, for that's what it is: bigotry.
I understand that there is currently a push to dispute this amendment with the Supreme Court, as it denies a minority group the rights granted to a majority group and is thus unconstitutional, just as denying African-Americans the right to marry in this country would be unconstitutional. I hope that happens -- I find that to be an excellent argument.
We shall see. This battle might have been lost but the war is far from over.
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Came across this on John Scalzi's blog, so many of you may have already seen it. Fox News (!) did a bit on the untold, off-the-record-until-after-the-election things their reporter was told about Sarah Palin by staffers in the McCain campaign. It's... interesting and would indicate that there was little-to-no vetting of her as a candidate beforehand. Click here if you're interested in hearing it.
California, I'm disappointed. I expected the other two gay marriage bans in other states to go through, but I thought you would vote for sanity and compassion and human rights and quash yours. You didn't. It was close, but too many of you were bigoted, for that's what it is: bigotry.
I understand that there is currently a push to dispute this amendment with the Supreme Court, as it denies a minority group the rights granted to a majority group and is thus unconstitutional, just as denying African-Americans the right to marry in this country would be unconstitutional. I hope that happens -- I find that to be an excellent argument.
We shall see. This battle might have been lost but the war is far from over.
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Came across this on John Scalzi's blog, so many of you may have already seen it. Fox News (!) did a bit on the untold, off-the-record-until-after-the-election things their reporter was told about Sarah Palin by staffers in the McCain campaign. It's... interesting and would indicate that there was little-to-no vetting of her as a candidate beforehand. Click here if you're interested in hearing it.
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But you were right and prescient. It took me longer L-) Ultimately, she alienated the undecided voters and also energized the other side. The far right still loves her, but it's sounding like the moderate faction within the Republican Party really is upset with her. I don't think she's going away, and she may end up causing more divineness among the Republicans. We'll see...
All in all, I think McCain should have gone with his instincts and chosen Lieberman. That would have alienated the base and made them angry, yes, but it would have cemented the "maverick" message and the "work across the aisle" message, would have brought a lot of independents to him, and the base ultimately would have come back because they couldn't pull the lever for Obama. A McCain/Lieberman ticket would have made this a much tighter race.
What do you think?
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Kevin Drum On Barbie
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Anyway, getting off the subject there, but, yes, that came out of the blue, and Romney would have been stronger on those issues, but he and McCain had clashing personalities. I know a lot of right wing conservatives would have liked to have Romney on the ticket, though, especially here in Michigan.
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*sigh* This is something that you assume every adult knows. How can she not? I'm feeling kind of traumatized by this news, actually. Someone tell me this is not true!
You know, in another LJ, I read about how there is a significant minority of poorly educated adults who believe that Russia invaded Georgia, USA, and are confused as to why "no one cares" and no efforts are being made to defend the homeland from Russian invasion! Of course, none of them is running for high office. *head desk*
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;-)
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I'm curious what Palin will do over the next months and what will other material about her will come out over the next days and weeks. My hope is that she disappears into obscurity.
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Re: California low-ish turn-out
Pennsylvania was announced mid-afternoon PST. Anyone following the election knew what a turning point that was. Ohio was called early in the evening, local time. Even those only casually following the election (who? I don't know.) would have known what that meant.
Neither presidential campaign had much GOTV presence in California; both shipped folks from here to battleground states. The Yes on 8 campaign had a very large GOTV effort, especially in California's bible-belt (the central valley).
Los Angeles County, and it alone has about the same number of voters as the whole SF Bay Area, voted Yes. The bit that surprised me were the two counties along the Nevada border voting No. I'm used to state maps that show them aligning with conservative/Republican voting patterns.
See http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/map190000000008.htm for a map of the state's voting pattern.
So, my suspicion is that the black vote in California came out to participate in the historical moment, but the youth vote did not. The African-American community's sense of history overrode the sense that ones vote might count but it would not matter. We can't know for sure until the statisticians crunch the numbers, but that's what my gut tells me.