Results for ballot issues and progressive candidates
Filed by: Nan Hunter
November 5, 2008 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/results_for_ballot_issues_and_progressiv.phpSince you write the blog you want to read, I decided to concentrate last night on the ballot initiatives and down ballot races that I thought progressives would be most interested in. What strikes me the morning after is how Americans still seem almost genetically incapacitated when it comes to venturing much past the middle of the road in the left direction.
There's the sheer joy of seeing an African American progressive become president. And then there is the devastating defeat in California, with the apparent adoption of Prop 8, as well as the inability in FL to get 41% of the vote to stop an anti-marriage state constitutional amendment there. The only bright spot in the ballot issue list is the rejection by SD voters of an anti-abortion measure that was step one is a carefully thought out strategy to construct the perfect case for persuading a conservative Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.
