quick election notes

Even though this is in the middle of my "work week"(I work 12 hours a day, three days on, three off), I want to mention any notes I had forgotten to mention earlier, like voting patterns in NEA.

-First district's counties votes finally went red. Counties that didn't even go red in 2004 went for mccain this election.Counties that did go for Obama.

-The ban proposal on unmarried couples fostering or adopting (Proposed Initiative no. 1 passed surprisingly enough. Reaction to it had been mixed in the state Republican party toward supporting it. As far as in this area, there's no real pattern between the Delta counties and non-delta, as opposed to the Amendment 3 issue 4 years ago (and even then, that was debatable). My only guess is maybe the various county counts of while liberals, but alas, arelections.org sets out votes by issue or geography, not by number of Episcopalians.

-Obama won by more points in California than Kerry in '04, and the gay marriage ban there(Proposition 8) was supposed to be down by at least 5 points according to final polls, so how did it pass? People forgot San Fransisco and Oakland are pretty damn different. African-Americans voted in favor of the ban by 70 percent (which may very well be more than AR African-Americans did for Amendment 3 in '04 even) . Ironically enough, it may very well had been because of Obama's campaign that it was able to pass in such a liberal state as California.

Yes, that thought numbs the mind, but I'd like to remind my fellow non-AR friends I come from a state that elected George Wallace, William Fulbright, and Winthrop Rockefeller at the same time 40 years ago. These things are possible. These things happen.