GOP bigots received another boot kick in the mouth today when the Wall Street Journal reported that California voters want no part of the bigotry being peddled by GOP hate-mongers. <link>

Hate and you hate alone, isn't that right reactionaries?

...this was on the news last night. A couple observations made by the local politican analyst,

1. People don't like to change the Constitution - strike 1,
2. Measures that initially poll as losing, typically lose in November - strike 2,
3. The sky isn't falling, people are not trying legalize marrying vacuum cleaners, dogs or telephone pole as predicited by the "right" and allowing gays to marry really hasn't hurt anyone - strike 3.

It is nice that common sense and fairness will prevail...

"Hate and you hate alone, isn't that right reactionaries?"

Everybody hates somebody, even Clinton hating Hopeheads.

maybe you can point to one example where the field poll has ever been right?

they pridicted that for prop 22, only 50% supported it, and it ended up winning 64%-36%. In May, they showed 54% opposed Prop. 8, whereas the Los Angeles Times poll showed 54% support.

JP

personally, I'm indifferent, except that I'll vote for it because I don't believe one judge should have the right to continually overturn the will of the people.

Affirmative Action back in 2003.

Poll Analysis: U.S. Nowhere Near Eliminating Racism, But Race-Based Affirmative Action Not the Answer Americans are with Bush in his opposition to U. of Michigan admissions criteria, but support race-blind economic affirmative action programs. By Jill Darling Richardson, Times Poll Assoc. Director
February 6, 2003 Americans support the stand taken by the Bush Administration against a University of Michigan affirmative action program which uses race as a factor in determining student admissions, according to the latest Los Angeles Times poll. Despite the fact that a majority of Americans feel that the United States has not even come close to eliminating discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities in the America, most said that academic achievement should be used as the sole admission criterion for universities, although there was also support for economic-based affirmative action.

Affirmative action splits the country along partisan lines, but it also splits the nation along racial lines. In almost all cases, self-identified white Americans see less need for affirmative action of any kind than do other Americans, and especially African Americans. Whites are also more likely to say that the country is fairly or very close to eliminating discrimination today.
In mid January of this year, President Bush stated his opposition to the University of Michigan’s program of racial preferences for minority applicants—calling it “fundamentally flawed”—and attorneys for the administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court which argued that the University’s admissions program is unconstitutional. Fifty-five percent of Americans approved of this move at least somewhat and four in 10 said they strongly approved, including two thirds of Republicans. When you include those who approve somewhat, more Republicans approved than disapproved by seven to one.

A majority of independents also approved to some degree by a narrower margin—54% to 29%. A plurality of Democrats approved as well, but by a much narrower margin of five percentage points—44% to 39%.

Poll respondents who self-identify as non-white were split 46% to 41% in favor of the Bush Administration action, a number that includes a majority of African American respondents who were opposed. (Note: Black, Latino and Asian respondents are included in the survey, but are not of sufficient number to break out individually.)

Fifty-seven percent of Americans said they felt that a student’s academic record should be the sole criterion for university admission, compared to 33% who said that they supported the idea that some students should be admitted in an attempt to balance the student body by looking at geographic location, ethnicity, or gender as well as academic record.
<link> I am all for ending Affirmative Action. How about you? Are you a Bigot?