Palin goes down in much the same way that Harriet Miers did when Bush nominated her to the Supreme Court. I really can't understand this as anything other than a transparent ploy by McCain to steal away Hillary supporters. It seems desperate. This woman has some skeletons in her closet, and I don't think this will be pretty if Obama surrogates start going for her jugular.
August 2008 Archives
A recent poll indicates that 54% of California voters oppose Proposition 8 with only 40% in favor.
A majority of likely voters, 54 percent, oppose ending gay marriage, compared with 40 percent who support it, the poll said. The result is similar to the findings of a Field Poll in July, which found that 51 percent of likely California voters opposed ending gay marriage, while 42 percent said they supported it.On another note, it is worthwhile to say that I've been heartened to hear speakers at the Democratic National Convention, including Hillary Clinton, openly and ardently mention the LGBT community in their calls for equality. Special kudos to those speakers who use the term sexual orientation and not sexual preference. Michelle Obama even made a surprise appearance and gave an impromptu speech at gay and lesbian delegate lunch. I'm glad to see these folks back in our corner.
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The new poll indicates that those opposed to gay marriage will have to mobilize voters if they are to be successful in November, Baldassare said.
"The burden is always on the yes side to convince people there is good reason to vote for the measure," he said.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times endorsed voting against Proposition 8:
I'm taking both of these events as signs of the decreasing likelihood that Proposition 8 will pass. Let the conservatives keep spending their money, fighting off sleepless nights, and living in a time of many decades ago. Change isn't easy, but it has arrived. It's time for equality in marriage, and there's no denying it.
We fervently hope that voters, whatever their personal or religious convictions, will shudder at such a step and vote no on Proposition 8.Additionally, a Superior Court judge in Sacramento ruled on Friday that State officials do not need to reword Proposition 8, after changing the language to a proposition to "eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry." The judge had this to say: "[t]he court is not willing to fashion a rule that would require the Attorney General to engage in useless nominalization."
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To be sure, the court overturned Proposition 22, a vote of the people. That is the court's duty when a law is unconstitutional, even if it is exceedingly popular. Civil rights are commonly hard-won, and not the result of widespread consensus. Whites in the South vehemently rejected the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools. For that matter, Californians have accused the state Supreme Court of obstructing the people's will on marriage before -- in 1948, when it struck down a ban on interracial marriages.
Fundamental rights are exactly that. They should neither wait for popular acceptance, nor be revoked because it is lacking.
I'm taking both of these events as signs of the decreasing likelihood that Proposition 8 will pass. Let the conservatives keep spending their money, fighting off sleepless nights, and living in a time of many decades ago. Change isn't easy, but it has arrived. It's time for equality in marriage, and there's no denying it.
