Prop 8 Demos: a Contrarian Caveat
Filed by: Nan Hunter
November 16, 2008 1:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/prop_8_demos_a_contrarian_caveat.phpI write this as demonstrations against Prop 8 occur around the country. That's great - although I distance myself from anything framed as anti-Mormon per se. While it's been tough to have been too busy to be blogging the last couple of weeks, I'm not unhappy to have missed all the heartburn in lgbt world about why we lost Prop 8. The gay blogosphere has been flaming with finger pointing in various directions and interpretations and counter-interpretations of election data.
Instead, let's suspend the instant analysis until we have fuller information. There are at least three studies - that I know of - being done now about what went wrong, including more detailed empirical analysis than is possible from reviewing media web sites with exit poll data. The studies also include post-election focus groups on why people voted as they did.
Maybe these studies will confirm X analysis or Y analysis, or maybe, as is often the case in life, reality will turn out to be at least a little bit more complicated than all of our philosophically-driven explanations would paint it (and I acknowledge that my instant analysis is as much a reflection of my own beliefs as anyone else's). In other words, express the anger, but chill on the analysis until we have a fuller set of data.
