OK, I know the presidential election overshadowed everything, but this was also a landmark night for us.
Voters in Maine and Maryland approved same-sex marriage in their states, and voters in Minnesota rejected an amendment barring gay marriage.
The Washington vote is still pending, but as of this time, we're leading there, too.
So the religious right can now officially shove the argument that we can't win at the ballot box!!!
And as a result of the elections, the number of states where gay people can now legally wed will be up to nine.
Anyway, I also think the GOP is eventually going to have to cut ties with the religious right, at least at the presidential election level. Their path to victory has become too narrow, and the party is becoming too out of step culturally with a large swath of the country. A hard-core anti-immigration line is killing the party with Hispanics; idiots like the two Senate candidates who don't know what rape is, combined with stands on abortion and contraception, have killed the party with single female voters. And their positions on topics like gay rights are killing the party with young voters.
The GOP only started courting religious voters under Reagan. That worked for a while, but it's apparent now that it's no longer a winning formula on a national level.
But it's going to take a daring candidate to break from that formula, because Republicans fear losing to more socially conservative candidates in the GOP primaries.
Get out of Afghanistan in 2014.
Tax policy should be fair; the wealthy should pay their fair share.
We should work to reduce the deficit in a gradual way that won't hurt the recovery.
Tax increases as well as program cuts should be a part of solving our budgetary problems.
Wall Street and banking reforms were/are needed and should not be overturned.
People should be able to marry the person they love.