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Election results (belated)
Yesterday was a very good day.
My roommate and I went to a bar in the Lower East Side, I went insane with joy at the results, and nearly got myself run over by a taxi while running around the streets screaming. We attempted to pick up the voting freebies, but the line was too long at Ben and Jerry's, I hate coffee (Starbucks) and gave mine away to a homeless guy, and at the last stop they were ALL OUT of stock. :(
Today was also nice, though I did feel bad when I saw how depressed my ultra-conservative friend was.
Prop 8 was, of course, a big disappointment, but (almost) every poll I'd seen going in indicated that it was going to pass. What surprised me most was seeing LA County decided by less than a percent of a point. Really? LA? I expected that from Orange Country but . . . LA?
The good news, California dwellers and watchers, is that young people voted NO by a big margin - %60+. Change is coming. Conservatives are fighting a loosing battle. Once that right is there, it will be like abortion - even South Dakota failed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban abortion TWICE now. I even suspect they may know it - it would explain the hysteria that keeps coming from them every major election cycle.
That's all barring a major upheaval of some sort in our country, anyway. People are always eager to start beating on minority groups when terrorists/Great Depressions/etc are involved.
My roommate and I went to a bar in the Lower East Side, I went insane with joy at the results, and nearly got myself run over by a taxi while running around the streets screaming. We attempted to pick up the voting freebies, but the line was too long at Ben and Jerry's, I hate coffee (Starbucks) and gave mine away to a homeless guy, and at the last stop they were ALL OUT of stock. :(
Today was also nice, though I did feel bad when I saw how depressed my ultra-conservative friend was.
Prop 8 was, of course, a big disappointment, but (almost) every poll I'd seen going in indicated that it was going to pass. What surprised me most was seeing LA County decided by less than a percent of a point. Really? LA? I expected that from Orange Country but . . . LA?
The good news, California dwellers and watchers, is that young people voted NO by a big margin - %60+. Change is coming. Conservatives are fighting a loosing battle. Once that right is there, it will be like abortion - even South Dakota failed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban abortion TWICE now. I even suspect they may know it - it would explain the hysteria that keeps coming from them every major election cycle.
That's all barring a major upheaval of some sort in our country, anyway. People are always eager to start beating on minority groups when terrorists/Great Depressions/etc are involved.