Score yet another point in the column for not being racist. What is that, 93,000,000 points by now?
Despite some folks’ best efforts to pin Prop 8 on the straight black community or Fresno or something, it seems ignorant hot-heads are eating their words today.
A massive study initiated by the LGBT Mentoring Project was just released that puts the blame for the loss back squarely where it belongs–on us.
A team of data experts analyzed all of the polls leading up to the election to isolate every possible factor that led up to the November 2008 failure on Prop 8. In fact, it seems, that our ads shot our cause in the foot–creating confusion about what Prop 8 was actually about. While a majority of African American voters supported Prop 8 in the end, about the same number supported it in the beginning: few were swayed by the other side’s ads. The other side won through the ads by initiating a major voter turn around with mostly white Democrats:
“In the final six weeks of the campaigns, after exposure to TV ads on which both sides spent a combined $60 million, approximately 687,000 voters moved towards favoring the ban on same-sex marriage. More than 500,000 of these voters were parents with children under the age of 18 living at home. Other groups of voters who moved away from same-sex marriage in large numbers included white Democrats, Independents, and voters in the Greater Bay Area. Prop 8 passed by a margin of just under 600,000 votes.”
Read all about it in the LA Times this morning.
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In all honesty, their messaging about “teaching homosexuality in schools” was just too effective. If we want to mount a campaign to legalize marriage in a state like Washington that has a ballot initiative process, we need to be sure we have a strong counter to that “they’re going to teach teh ghey in school” argument. End of story.
Another chance to smack Dan Savage for you guys! I wish he had a show on HLN or MSNBC to rouse the rabble & take on the right wing talking assholes. He does get glbtq issues out there, doesn’t he?
There are certain things I just can’t compromise on. One of them is racism. I would rather Dan Savage not be a spokesman for me until he apologizes for his post prop-8 hate spewing.
Why is Dan in the headline and then nothing in the body of the blog about him? What’s the connection?
I also blogged about the Prop 8 Report- and included the video from the report author- I think everyone should give it a view-
http://www.feastoffun.com/videos/2010/08/02/video-the-prop-8-report/
It seemed the biggest take away is that people feel somehow that letting there kids know that gay is ok is will somehow make them gay.
Here’s a thoughtful article
Race And Gay Marriage In Perspective
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/race-and-gay-marriage-in-perspective/60837/
http://www.feastoffun.com/podcast/2008/11/18/fof-882-rev-straight-talks-about-prop-8-111808/
So we were right all along. Listen to our interview with the Rev. Charles Straight: “FOF #882 – Rev. Straight Talks About Prop. 8″ done in November of 2008.
the campaign’s internal polling always had our side losing so not sure if those 687,000 actually moved or were just more accurately polled.
at a town hall i attended in SF i learned that not only were those we lost white democrats, but they were overwhelmingly female. with abortion parental notification defeated on the same ballot as prop 8 that told me that a young mother is OK with her not knowing her daughter is having an abortion but is NOT ok with same sex marriage. you would think that among our strongest supporters would be pro-choice white women. WRONG.