A Coming Wave of Gay Marriage Electoral Victories?

[William769]

The electoral process has not been kind to advocates of gay marriage. Again and again, states -- 32 in all -- have voted against it at the ballot box, even in liberal bastions like California, which passed Proposition 8 in 2008. The latest blow came in May, when North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions by a 22-point margin.

But that could all change in November. Four states have marriage-related ballot initiatives this fall, and gay-rights activists are cautiously optimistic that their side could win most or all of them -- a potentially historic turning of the tide.

The pro-gay-marriage side currently leads in the latest polls of the ballot measures in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Here's a breakdown of where things stand on the question of whether gay marriage should be legalized in each state:

MAINE (WBUR, June):

Yes: 55 percent

No: 36 percent

MARYLAND (Hart Research Assoicates, August):

Yes: 54 percent

No: 40 percent

MINNESOTA (Public Policy Polling, June):

Yes: 49 percent

No: 43 percent

WASHINGTON (PPP, June):

Yes: 51 percent

No: 42 percent

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/a-coming-wave-of-gay-marriage-electoral-victories/260787/

Let's hope so!

[SQUEE]

1. rolling tide,

So much of politics is about momentum.
For the most part I believe Americans to be a good and honest people that are fundamentally fair, but also a conservative (the pure meaning not the farcical political label) people in their obstinate refusal to change, a cultural inertia of sorts.
I think we can build on the little victories to medium and finally large paradigm shift level change. the president FINALLY coming into the light, was medium, getting rid of DODT also medium.
To win over a quarter or dare I hope a third of the states to the seemingly obvious view that love knows no gender and that it is only fair to not stand in the way of 2 peoples choice of life partner, well then it becomes a tidal wave and the nation as a whole will have no choice but to allow what is only right.

[MNBrewer]

2. Hope so

Maybe Prop 8 was the high water mark (the NC was bad, but to be expected).

I hope my state can be part of turning back the Barbarians.