Wetcoaster on 06 November 2008
Blame it on Obama according to CTV.
While Barack Obama's historic election as the U.S.'s next president was seen as a huge win for progressive, exit polls showed that Obama supporters were vital in the effort to ban same-sex marriage.
Exit polls conducted by The Associated Press showed that African-Americans, who turned out in huge numbers, voted heavily in support of the measure. About seven in ten African-Americans supported the ban, while whites were about evenly split.
Analysts point out that African-Americans are more likely to go to church than whites as a reason for the difference in voting.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081105/gaymarriage_ban_081105/20081105?hub=TopStories
