Reply #4: I would not blame on group over the other... however [View All]

[FreeState]

Exit polls this year showed black voters made up 10% of the electorate in CA (http://www.freep.com/article/20081107/NEWS15/81107126/?imw=Y).

So it won by 4% - all you needed to do was shift 2.1% of the voters and it would have failed. If black voters had voted by the same margin of white voters, by my math, it would have failed.

I should be very clear here though that I do not place blame on one group over the other - this same math could be applied to every group of voters - especially when the margin was so close. The only people to blame for its passage are those that voted yes - not groups of people.

In reality if we place this back on the ballot in 2010 there is a good chance of repealing it - the reason being even if you change no ones mind between now and then, at least 250,000 older voters will die before then and there will be at least than many new younger voters who support marriage equality by wide margins.