San Francisco has reported at nearly 100%.
And Los Angeles is probably going to break for 8, as well.
But the other counties askeptic lists are still under 50% reporting. I should go to bed. They’re probably not going to have all those votes counted before the morning…and yet, I keep hitting refresh. I don’t think I’d be able to sleep without a bunch of alcohol.
I’ve grown a lot since I started posting at the SDMB. If this one passes, I will be utterly disgusted with California voters. Such a shame, as they did so well on their presidential ballot.
One of these things is not like the other.
What am I missing?
AZ is a sure Yes (like we didn’t know that). Pima (my registered county) predictably voted against it, but everywhere else said yes. Not much a surprise though, since walking around in Tempe (in Maricopa) there must be a Yes on marriage sign every 3 corners. 
It’s not to late to use my time machine and mind control helmet to change the vote people! (But last time we mucked around in the time stream… yeah, sorry about ruining those flying car plans and delaying the utopian society, maybe just waiting for some SC appointments would be safer).
My comfort is that history is not going to look kindly on these haters. They’re going to be the people throwing garbage at little black kids trying to go to school 50 years ago.
That most of the anti prop 8 counties still have more than half their votes to count. Pretty much the Alabama of California has reported but the California of California is still counting and the no votes outnumber the yes votes.
I hope you’re right. I just got up to see Prop 8 up at 52% yes and was pretty disgusted. Not that FL and AK and AZ are any better.
It seems to be tightening a bit in LA:
http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/0018_StateMeasure_Frame.htm
They obviously haven’t got to my vote yet. I’m really going to be upset if it passes in LA-fucking-county.
As much as I am holding out hope, I am trying to start accepting defeat. Because things are not looking good.
Unfortunately LA County includes Lancaster/Palmdale, which is a bigtime stronghold of social conservatism. If I want to start my day off full of righteous indignation, I read the local paper.
I’m pretty sure we can call it–Prop 8 passed. It’s really late, and I’ve been up for almost 24 hours, so numbers don’t really make sense to me anymore, but if California only needs 51%, it’s there.
I don’t even think the sites are updating anymore.
I feel worn out and powerless. I’m going to bed, too.
This page is updating still, every 5 minutes it seems like.
It’s going to pass, but by the slimmest of margins. So I guess tomorrow or Thursday, everybody gets to gear up for a fight in 2010.
It will be interesting to see the breakdown in the months to come. My guess is that Obama did inspire many minorities to get out and vote. But, many of those minorities, including blacks and hispanics, are very socially conservative.
Now, hang on just one fucking minute. They’ve counted 9,362,541 votes, which they say is 88%, and the lead is 324,521. If that’s 88%, the total votes are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,639,251, meaning that there are somewhere around 1,276,710 to be counted yet. Over one million fucking votes and the difference is 325,000. We have no idea what’s on those last million-and-two-quarters ballots.
ETA: Oops, that’s 88% of precincts, not votes–partially. No word on how big or how small the remaining precincts are, or just how “partial” the results are. We simply do not know. So hold your horses, people.
Are civil unions still legal in Cali after Prop 8’s defeat?
You mean Prop 8’s victory. Prop 8 seeks to eliminate the right to same-sex marriage, not establish it.
Yes, victory. In other words, was the whole concept of legal gay relationships outlawed, or only marriage.
I understand that Cali had civil unions before…
Same-sex.
The specific text of the proposition refers only to marriage, but seeing as it’s a constitutional amendment now, I guess it could be used as precedent to justify all sorts of institutionalized discrimination.
Well, that’s exactly what I expected.
Ugh. Looks like it still close, but prop 8 will probably pass. I really wanted CA to be the first state to affirm SSM through the legislative process (initiatives are part of that process). Well, we can try again in a few years, and it will get the nod eventually. Now, the messy process of sorting out the legal status of all those SSMs that have already be performed.
