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youtube.com - 11/2/2008

No on Prop 8: Home Invasion (video)

— youtube.com — The Mormon Church has spent $20 million to pass Prop 8, which would "eliminate the right of... same-sex couples to marry." The Courage Campaign Issues... (more) No on Prop 8: Home Invasion (video)

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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008

Prop 8 Myths

— fivethirtyeight.com — Writes Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee: Last week, however, 10 percent of voters were African American... while 18 percent were Latino, and applying exit poll data to that extra turnout reveals that the pro-Obama surge among those two groups gave ... (more) Prop 8 Myths

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/13/2008

Taking the “TA” Out of “TARP”

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Paulson says the Troubled Assets Relief Program won’t actually be buying any troubled assets . On the... policy merits, I think Paulson’s shift into recapitalization was the right idea. Or, rather, the people who I’ve chosen to trust ... (more) Taking the “TA” Out of “TARP”

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Repeal DOMA &tc.
The Moderate Voice — ... polls, compared to 53% of Latino voters, 49% of white voters, 49% of Asian voters. I’m not sure what to do with this… I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color. Ta-Nehisi Coates responds: Groups of people who end up on the bad end of history aren’t ...

Disgrasian: The Passage of Prop 8: Do the Math
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... on how people voted, by race, on Prop 8. The number that jumps out at you is the 70% of African-American voters who supported the ban. There's been a lot of grumbling on the internet about how the passage of Prop 8 is the fault of black voters, with an implicit (and sometimes not-so-implicit) How dare They, especially since we elected one of Them. ...