Proposition 8. The curtain has risen but the conductor's baton hasn't moved yet.

A few people have posted that Proposition 8 has passed (which is bad, bad, bad).

No.

That's not what's in the news. The news says it has a "comfortable margin." Mmm... sort of. It would be comfortable if the conservative/liberal votes were evenly distributed across the state.

It's only ahead by 300,000 votes, 53% 51.9% for banning gay marriage, 47% 48.1% against the ban.

However, the conservative inland counties have reported 100% of their votes. They're done. It's those votes that have it passing at this point. Meanwhile, less than half of LA's massive far-more-liberal precincts have been counted. The Bay area counties have only reported roughly a third of their precincts.

The fat lady hasn't sung on this one, folks.

The wild streets of Seattle.

As promised... Obama victory celebration last night in the wild streets of Seattle.



( Yes we can! )

Last night I said, "My neck hurts, my throat's sore from yelling, my arms are sore from the "Yes we can!" fists in the air, and I think I strained something jumping onto that garbage can. What a wonderful night."

Kiro Channel 7 video: apparently later on the crowd marched from Broadway to Pike Place in front of the Showbox, closing the streets downtown.

Proposition 8: tight race, still not to the finish line.

Email from the Human Rights Campaign this evening, about an hour ago:

Media outlets have begun to report bad news for marriage equality in California. However, the Human Rights Campaign just participated in a conference call with our coalition partners and we firmly believe that all votes should be counted before calling the race. Several million votes in California have yet to be counted. Now is not the time to speculate on somebody’s fundamental rights. So we are waiting to see the final results from those ballots and will be issuing a statement after the race has been called. Please stay tuned.

Proposition 8 is ahead right now by only half a million votes. We still have several million votes yet to be counted.

It hasn't been called yet. It doesn't look good, but we're not done yet. This is a very tight race.

Also, from ithiliana the roughly 18,000 gay couples who got married in California this year will still be married even if Proposition 8 passes, according the state attorney general.