Newsom says he’s optimistic because only 52 percent of voters favored Proposition 8, compared with 62 percent of voters who favored a ban on same-sex marriage in 2000.
Speaking to reporters in his office, the mayor says he sees hope in “the millions and millions of Californians who said it’s wrong to take rights away from people.”
It's Newsom's fault all right:
As San Francisco and the blue state majority of California nurse their election euphoria hangover, let's point out the obvious about the passage of Prop. 8:
Gavin Newsom screwed it up.
Voters are the ones who make the decision but no one person handed the Yes on 8 campaign a more persuasive and compelling sound bite than our own mayor. Even if there were other flaws in the anti-8 operation, he was unquestionably the poster child for the pro-8 push, whether you like it or not.
"Whether you like it or not" will be his epitaph.
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