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To: tejek who wrote (433118)	11/5/2008 1:10:43 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571736

Ted, Here is a page with all the ballot measures: cnn.com Joe PS: What is it about Washington and Oregon that their way of running the elections is somewhere on par with Lesotho? It is more than 12 hours from the time the polls closed and they counted only 56% and 66% of the votes...

To: tejek who wrote (433118)	11/5/2008 2:21:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571736

Ted, the score on Prop. 8 was 52% to 48%: latimes.com One reason why the proposition won was because the advertising focused on education. The proponents successfully argued that legalized gay marriage would mean children would be taught about it as early as kindergarten. They also brought up a couple of high-profile examples such as one in Massachusettes and another one in San Francisco. Then there was the quote from SF mayor Gavin Newsom, "It's gonna happen ... whether you like it or not!" Proponents of Prop. 8 gave that quote a LOT of air time. Finally, the response from the California Teachers Union and their representatives backfired, IMO. They claimed that teaching about gay marriage will not happen in schools. Yet it was pointed out that they donated $1 million to the effort to defeat the measure, bringing up a real conflict of interest. I think the bottom line is this. Californians, myself included, are comfortable with "separate but equal" when it comes to marriage and homosexual civil unions. In a way, the pro-gay movement went a little too far in pushing their agendas via the courts, the schools, and the local bully pulpits, and this was the reaction. Tenchusatsu