It's not wrong, it's incomplete. Everyone who voted for Prop 8 helped it pass. The argument about that statement is about whether the African-American turn out was increased as the result of Obama being the nominee, and if that bump in numbers was enough to cause Prop 8 to pass. I don't think we can know the answer to that question because you could slice and dice the stats to say just about anything. What about gay apathy? What about the people who voted yes thinking that it meant yes to gay marriage? What about the people who voted for candidates and bypassed the props all together? I don't think the polling data is granular and accurate enough to come to a reliable conclusion on that point.
What we can know is that 1) more outreach is necessary to many communities and 2) older people voted for this thing, but probably not all of them. Just like the Mormons, Catholics, African-Americans... and probably some gay people voted for it, too!
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Date: 2008-11-13 06:49 pm (UTC)What we can know is that 1) more outreach is necessary to many communities and 2) older people voted for this thing, but probably not all of them. Just like the Mormons, Catholics, African-Americans... and probably some gay people voted for it, too!