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

[icarus]

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.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Some of the Bay area counties only have 24% reporting so far. We shall see. Governor Gregoire was losing here in Washington, and then King county (i.e. the ever-dominant Seattle) reported in. Whoosh. We get to keep our Democratic governor.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw there are at least two Bay Area counties that are real low. And just since I posted, the gap in LA has closed considerably. *crosses fingers*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That MSNBC map isn't changing at all for me. I am able to follow the changes here (http://www.sfgate.com/election/races/2008/11/04/CA/c/i_proposition/i_1_8_same_sex_marriage_ban/g_ballot_issue/c/california.shtml), but do you have a better place to check the ongoing tallies?

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I have been watching the LA Times site (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-2008election-california-results,0,1293859.htmlstory), but also just discovered the LA County site (http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/0018_StateMeasure_Frame.htm), which is more up-to-date (although obviously limited to LA only).

The gap in LA is teensy now! 50.79% yes to 49.21% no, with 83% reporting.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's infinitesimal. And thank, those sites are very, very helpful.

And hopeful.

[tty63.livejournal.com]

CNN's doing a decent job here (http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#CAI01).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. Their results load quickly, too. Thank you.