He can’t even get the basic facts right. R74 in Washington passed with 53.7% of the vote, when all the votes were finally tallied by the end of November. He probably just lazily grabbed the numbers that were reported on election night.

Also, in MN, if you count the blank ballots as no votes, as MN law requires, more than 53% of the vote came down on our side. It is also worth noting that the judicial retention election in IA served as a proxy vote on marriage and more than 53% voted to retain. BTW, our side was outspent in IA, so money was not the issue.

These margins are comparable to, or better, than their margin of victory in CA, ME, AZ, and SD.

Also, a lot of the really big wins that they racked up in 1998-2006 were uncontested elections. Something like 2/3 of these contests involved no serious campaign. In those early days, our side knew that we would likely lose and there was little incentive to put in a lot of time and money in order to improve our margin of defeat by 5 or 10 points. I don’t see why a string of uncontested elections from 8-10 years ago has more legitimacy than intensively contested elections from 4 months ago.

It will be interesting to see what happens in OR in 2014. OR passed its amendment in 2004 with 56.5% and an election on the same issue in the same state exactly 10 years later will be a great way to frame and understand the change in the public’s view of this issue.

Odd how often the religious raises the legislature issue. As if elected officials are somehow illegitimate.

Same-sex marriage is toward the end of our journey from illegality to equality. Inability to marry is a legacy of illegality. It has to pass.

“…none arrived there through a vote by the people.”

Of course he implies that people’s civil rights SHOULD be put to a popular vote. We know how that would have worked for African Americans in the 1960s. I think it took 30 years for the last state to repeal their actual anti-miscegenation laws (post-Loving v. Virgina) and polls showed that–in several states–a repeal would have been MASSIVELY defeated if left to the popular vote.

“Overall, Americans remain strongly in favor of traditional marriage.”

Heck–count me as one. I am ALSO for Marriage Equality. His labels don’t quite work and I’d be extremely interested to see the wording in the polls–assuming they didn’t just come from his rectum.

In regards to the other side being outspent, love how they’re suddenly complaining about this. We’ve always outspent them, and now they’re saying it’s why they lost?