Barney Frank will not be pleased...
Posted on 11/03/2009 7:46:12 PM PST by HamiltonJay
28% Reporting, rejection of Gay Marriage up 50.51%
But, but . . . Obama promised them they could get married.
Oops, I guess he forgot to reserve Air Force One so he could campaign for them.
MAINE VOTERS REPEAL STATE LAW THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED GAY COUPLES TO MARRY
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New gay blacklist coming soon to Maine
Sweet, Yes on 1 passed!!!
87% reporting
Yes — 265,939 52.8%
No — 238,169 47.2
Fox, AP, and NYTimes declare traditional marriage voters the winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally, I’ve been updating every 20 minutes for 3 hours. The rural areas pulled it out again, actually by a larger margin than last time. Kudos to the organizers in Penobscot, Aroostook and Somerset counties.
Great News Thank you...I think the blinders may be falling off our country...We have got to keep up the momentum!!
[[Kudos to the organizers in Penobscot, Aroostook and Somerset counties.]]
I had pretty much given up on maine (my homestate)- but this gives me new reason to hope again (although hte state is still turning whacko like VT-) Good to see there are still a majority of good honest folks there though, who value traditional marriage- I thought sure that after Boston allowed gay marriage, that Maine (often called ‘little Boston’ in certain parts) woudl follow suit- thankfully they haven’t
No they haven’t, and Rhode Island isn’t likely to fall either. Where the people have the ability to weigh in they vote this nonsense down; personally I believe Massachusetts would have done so as well.
[[Where the people have the ability to weigh in they vote this nonsense down;]]
Well- the whole of upstate NY USED to be very conservative- however, the last decade or so has really changed- they just keep voting in the liberals liek there’s no tomorrow- could happen in Maine too- but let’s hope not-
I used to have hope for upstate NY, but after watchign time after time them go almost compeltely democrat- I’ve since lost all faith in them— it’s liek they have tied the noose aroudn their own necks, and think that tightening it little by little is the way to survive- they’ve lost their collective heads I’m afraid— Butr, mind you- I thought NJ was beyond hope too- but they proved me wrong tonight :)Maine still has hope-
I pray this holds.
I appreciate your pessimism. Optimism kills efforts.
Here's the upside: like Prop 8, Q1 picked up a few percentage points from the people who vote "no" in cases of uncertainty. One despondent Prop. 8 opponent estimated this number at as much as 5%.
Also, the gay activists blew $4 million in Maine without success, compared to the $2.5 million of successful marriage defenders. That's money that won't be influencing anywhere else.
If Maine witnesses the same kind of thuggery witnessed in the aftermath of Prop 8, that could also turn a few people away.
Democratically speaking, the key will be to swing about 20% of young people from the pro-SSM side to the traditional side. This is doable. Ten years ago, few adults would have thought SSM was a real threat, so we weren't preparing young people to avoid going wacky. We're a lot less naive now, and we're learning how to do this without sounding like the constipated village elders from Footloose.
I hear Maine focused on the threat of teaching about SSM in schools. That won't play to the 18-29 set, who don't have schoolkids and think they themselves are perfectly mature enough to handle "edgy" topics. A new approach is needed.
The elite level will be tough, since academia, the press, Hollywood, and some businesses and churches are now fully on the radicals' side. (And Dick Cheney, the turncoat...)
However, the press, Hollywood and liberal churches are declining in power.
If conservative churchgoing declines, and if pornography continues to undermine standards, things will be tough. But Progressives' belief in the inevitability of their victory is a weakness as well as a strength.
The city of Bangor went so far as to close all the former precinct polling places and had everybody vote at the Bangor Auditorium, thus (imo) suppressing the elderly vote and the votes of folks without transportation.
We had to wait in line over half an hour to vote and when we came out the line was longer than when we went in. It was hard to judge the crowd, even the ones who brought children with them to the polls.
But, a win is a win, is a win...
Never forget though that the left will repeatedly bring an issue back until they get the results they want and then declare the issue DOA ("the pipples have spoken!")
Beware of "entryism", the Stalinist term for leftist worms infiltrating conservative action groups...
Hard to believe.
Just being honest. These referendums would of won 95-5 if they were held 50 years ago.. 80-20 if they were held 20 years ago.
It’s only a matter of time with the public school system indoctrination going on.
Legal enshrinement = government endorsement.
Government endorsement = government enforcement.
Quit much?
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