Maine's Question 1

[Associate Justice PiT]

     If Maine rejects this proposition, I'll go L-ME for a week.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     This is extremely close. Hopefully No pulls through.

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     Damn it. That isn't good.

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Apparently 35% of Portland still has to report, plus absentees.

      Promising, though I don't think No on 1 can count on absentees to pull it through. Aren't absentee voters largely elderly after all?

[Associate Justice PiT]

Apparently 35% of Portland still has to report, plus absentees.

      Promising, though I don't think No on 1 can count on absentees to pull it through. Aren't absentee voters largely elderly after all?

The No on 1 campaign made a heavy effort to getting all their supporters vote absentee.

     Though I wonder how much they'll win absentees by given the leanings of people who usually vote absentee.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Apparently 35% of Portland still has to report, plus absentees.

      Promising, though I don't think No on 1 can count on absentees to pull it through. Aren't absentee voters largely elderly after all?

The No on 1 campaign made a heavy effort to getting all their supporters vote absentee.

     Though I wonder how much they'll win absentees by given the leanings of people who usually vote absentee.

To put it in perspective, in 2007, Portland received 127 absentee ballots, and this year they received over 7000k. Same all over the state. I'd say those who usually vote absentee are outnumbered this year.

     Wow, I had no idea absentee voting was normally so rare in Maine.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Portland's all in? That ain't good.

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     I'm surprised the anti-gay marriage side actually did better here than in California, given that I had thought Maine was far more socially liberal.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Chrstians opposing gay marriage is one thing, but the results in Washington make me wonder how many of them are cool with gay civil unions. Surely any individual actor has the fundamental right to be as morally reprobate as s/he wishes, provided that s/he does not harm anyone else.