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In response to "Me, too. But to be fair, we were overwhelmed by out-of-state interests. -- nm" by con_carne

Also, IIRC, there may have been an assumption that just because you vote for Obama, you will vote for marriage equality. This was definitely not the

Posted by con_carne Apr 7 '09, 08:21

case, esp. among black and Latino voters. Plenty of them voted for Obama, obvie, and yet they are socially conservative. Many of them, esp. the older ones, think gay marriage is wrong.

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- I know about that last point anecdotally, because I grew up around a lot of blacks & latinos. I believe there are also surveys that point to their - con_carne Apr 7, 08:25

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