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rollingstone.com - 12/3/2008

Same-Sex Setback

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O n election night in California, all signs pointed to a progressive tidal wave. Voters in the state swept Barack Obama to a 24-point victory over John McCain the biggest margin for any candidate since 1936. Bucking the recession, eco-conscious Californians voted to spend $10 billion to connect ...

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Gay Marriage: The Victory After the Defeat
Hit & Run — ... Dougherty isn't thrilled by this conclusion; he just thinks it's accurate. And in Rolling Stone, in an article that excoriates the opponents of Prop. 8 for a feckless and slow campaign (which points out that merely saying that the No on 8 forces raised more money than the Yes forces is misleading, since the Yes campaign got moving and raising big bucks much faster), the conclusion is similarly optimistic: ...

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Open Left - Front Page — ... Several of the post-mortems of the failed No on 8 campaign have mentioned that, along with a lack of a ground game, the public face of the campaign was a bland one, scared into ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... you're a pinhead moron" email from the Left. For every "thank you" from a liberal or gay (or gay liberal), there was a "you're a pinhead moron" from the right because I'm not up in arms enough about the possibility of gay marriage. Amongst the hundreds and hundreds of missives there were thoughtful criticisms from all sides and generous praise, but also an enormous amount of vicious, ugly nastiness. ++++++++ An emotional issue for sure. Same-Sex Setback - The Lousy California Proposition 8 Campaign Election postmortems ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Yada Yada Yada Why the Gay Marriage California Campaign failed - post mortem. (tags: gaymarriage) Same-Sex Setback - The Lousy California Proposition 8 Campaign Election postmortems have been quick to scapegoat minorities for ...

No one could have predicted that the religious right hates gays and cares about gay marriage
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Rolling Stone: From the start, the leaders of the No on Prop 8 campaign and their high-priced consultants failed to realize what they were up against. According to Geoff Kors, who headed the campaign's executive committee, the No side anticipated needing no more than $20 million to stop the gay-marriage ban. The Yes side, by contrast, set out to change how initiative politics are played, building a well-funded operation that rivaled a swing-state presidential campaign in its scope and complexity. It also built a powerful, faith-based coalition that included the ...

No On Competency
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — By Patrick Appel Tim Dickinson does a No on 8 postmortem. The thrust of the piece: "This was political malpractice," says a Democratic consultant who operates at the highest level of California politics. "They fucked this up, and it was painful to watch. They shouldn't be allowed to pawn this off on the Mormons or anyone else. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and now hundreds of thousands of gay couples are going to pay the price." ...

I’m late, I’m late: Critiquing No on 8
Comments from Left Field — ... No on Proposition 8 failed strategically as a political campaign, and Rolling Stone is the first mainstream publication to make the obvious argument obvious. Logically it makes much more sense to take the political leadership behind the campaign to task than ...