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Poll: Support for Ref 74 is under 50% :(

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by jsmurf, Oct 29, 2012.

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  1. jsmurf

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    Man, it'll suck if Ref 74 doesn't pass as this article hints is a real possibility:



    New poll points to tightening race on gay marriage | Strange Bedfellows — Politics News - seattlepi.com



    You can blame it all on the misinformation ads being pushed through by the opponents, trying to scare middle-of-the-road voters that "redefining" marriage will lead to the collapse of society.

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    Oh, and if McKenna becomes governor it will be a horrible, dark day. The man is pure evil. Inslee on the other hand is an all-around good guy who was one of the few people in Congress to vote against the Iraq War in 2003.
     
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    Ugh, I guess I assumed it was in the bag.
     
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    No, it's not a lock. We, as people who live on the outskirts of Seattle should know that fairly well. You only have to go 10 miles outside of Seattle to encounter a doggedly more ideologically mixed gradient.
     
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    Yeah, I'm not refuting that, and I can't explain why I thought it was in the bag, the company I keep perhaps?
     
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    Which could only be a good thing judging by your vantage.
     
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    The company I keep? Yeah, it is a good thing, though the only person I know IRL, outside of EC, who has said anything about ref 74 is the guy I came out to on FB recently. My other two friends who know about my bisexuality haven't mentioned it at all.

    Really, I'll admit to ignorance, as I wholly support it but haven't had much chance to follow the news and read the general perception of it as a whole. It got my vote, so it either passes or doesn't, I've cast.
     
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    Well, it's only one poll, but would still be a disappointing to see those big leads in every other poll seen so far somehow turn into a narrow defeat when it comes down to election day. I think it would be quite a blow to the movement to see yet another marriage equality defeat on the "left coast"...

    What makes McKenna especially evil? I know WA has a good record going of keeping Republicans out of power, but I heard the Seattle Times is running some sort of bizarre campaign to support both R-74 AND McKenna?
     
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    I honestly don't know what prompted them to stick up for McKenna. It's the Northwest, we're alot like the Twilight Zone out here. :grin:
     
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    Democracy is unintelligent, ignorant mean-spirited people voting on your rights. The more we can have it curtailed by the judicial branch, the better.
     
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    Don't think we will make any progress until the baby boomers die off, which is sad but it is what it is.
     
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    and their children and grand-children re-educated*
     
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