Gay marriage, marijuana well ahead in poll

Good to see . I was rather worried about the referendum turning out like California; looked to be plenty of anti-LGBT rights mobilization.

 

Yay, at least one more state is doing this... Now to wait 18 more years for Illinois to follow suit..

 

now lets hope that the supporters of equality get out and vote.

 

Always have to be weary not to count chickens before they hatch when it comes to polling over marriage equality.

As the hater crowd always likes to point out, marriage equality has never won a public vote.

But we have good collection of progressive-minded states voting this year that could give us our first victory; probably more than than one; possibly all of them.

Washington, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota. All of them are generally liberal-leaning states, and the polls show us ahead; the only one I'd really worry about is Minnesota, which has a large Michele Bachmann-style Evangelical population to contend with.

But good for Washington in marching toward progress on both marriage equality and marijuana legalization though. Though interesting that the marijuana proposal is 9 points ahead of marriage equality; wonder who the people are who support marijuana legalization but oppose marriage equality.

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Is Illinois really that far behind? There are many states where 18 years seems unfortunately likely, since they have constitutional amendments banning marriage equality and offer nothing to gay couples. But Illinois has no such amendment, it already has full civil unions, and it's a fairly liberal-leaning state, with Democratic control. If Barack Obama really cared about showing his support for marriage equality, he should at least put pressure on Democrats in his own state to get this done.

 

Which is why November can't come soon enough. We need a few of these states to pass marriage equality and strike down proposed anti-equality amendments to shut that talking point up.

As for Illinois... it'll take less than 18 years. I'd say 8 at most.

My state will need 18 though. And our amendment is possibly the worst of any state's.