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Originally Posted by epchick
I think there is enough Republicans in California, but you can't say all 5 million people that voted "yes" on prop 8 were Republican.
If you go by the logic of CNN & other news stations, the African-American vote pushed "yes on prop 8" over the edge. Of all the African-American I know, only one is republican (and she voted "no"). Many African-American are democrats, which would mean that MANY of the ~500,000 votes (that was the difference between yes & no) were democratic votes.
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That's true. However, it's not just the Af-Ams...Latinos, Christians, and married people were in on it, too:
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California's black and Latino voters, who turned out in droves for Barack Obama, also provided key support in favor of the state's same-sex marriage ban. Seven in 10 black voters backed a successful ballot measure to overturn the California Supreme Court's May decision allowing same-sex marriage, according to exit polls for The Associated Press.
More than half of Latino voters supported Proposition 8, while whites were split. Religious groups led the tightly organized campaign for the measure, and religious voters were decisive in getting it passed. Of the seven in 10 voters who described themselves as Christian, two-thirds backed the initiative. Married voters and voters with children strongly supported Proposition 8. Unmarried voters were heavily opposed.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...african-a.html
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