Kerry vs. gay marriage ban, Columbus Ohio

[jmknapp]

Here's a chart showing the negative correlation between support for the Ohio gay marriage ban vs. support for Kerry:



In addition to showing how support of the ban corresponds to lack of support for Kerry, there's an odd bifurcation. Will take more analysis, but a guess is that many blacks voted in favor of the ban despite having high support for Kerry. The precincts showing 80-100% support for Kerry would of course be the African American ones, and those show higher percentages voting for the ban.

[Ducks In A Row]

1. the marriage ban vote is a red herring. look at oregon

while we were stupid enough to pass that piece of shit (about 56% of vote, we still voted for kerry (52% of vote).

[Eric J in MN]

2. I still believe the ballot measure made the difference in Ohio.

Oregon went clearly for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, but Ohio was closer both times.

[jmknapp]

3. It's no red herring

It mobilized Bush's fundie base, in Ohio anyway.

BTW, Kerry won in Franklin County 54-46.

[Mike L]

4. Rove knew what he was doing.

Not a coincidence.

[JI7]

5. the purpose of putting those things on the ballots

was always about increasing the turnout of the bigots who usually vote republican.

[jmknapp]

6. Turnout

Here's a graph of turnout vs. Kerry %:



Joe