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[psocoptera]

51% in in Maine and it's 155,361 anti-equality and 153,453 pro-equality oh my god. Responsible parenting would have me going to sleep right now to prepare for the 2 am wakeup; I'm not sure I can.

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[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

DAMMIT, MAINE!

KEEP IT TOGETHER.

D:

[jdh92.livejournal.com]

I'm been trying to figure out where the outstanding ballots are, because that's going to make a huge difference. I can't find a good systematic summary though.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

But is even a tidal wave of Portland friendlies going to make up a 19000 vote difference? This is not looking good here.

[carnap.livejournal.com]

With 87% reporting, it's now 52.75% to 47.25%, so marriage equality has lost.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I stayed up until it looked doomed and went to bed sad. WTF Maine.

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much the best summary: WTF, Maine?
As someone else noted, they voted to give rights to pot-smokers but not to LGBT folk. WTF??

[glassonion]

To be fair, pot-smokers are also deserving of happiness.

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Sure but why the willingness to be non-status quo in one case but not the other?

[ccommack]

Well, they had already voted those rights to pot smokers a few years back, but neglected to provide for any of the actual practical details; this election corrected that.

Also, no big money was flowing in from out of state to run ads saying that people would give your kids cancer so that they would have to become customers of the pot dispensaries to alleviate the side effects of their chemotherapy THOSE DASTARDLY POTHEADS! Instead, your kids will still just be buying their weed at school like everyone else's kids.