{"id":10414,"date":"2009-11-04T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T17:50:34","slug":"my-brief-thoughts-on-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/04\/my-brief-thoughts-on-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"My (Brief) Thoughts on Maine …"},"content":{"rendered":"

(It stinks, but with every day, we are one step closer to equality. Also, it seems Frank Schubert agrees with Paul<\/a>, No on 1 did run the better field operation. – promoted by Brian Leubitz<\/i>)<\/p>\n

I hate losing elections, but what I REALLY<\/i> hate is losing after a high turnout.  Losing because our base didn’t vote is depressing, but at least it tells us what we need to do to win next time – and progressives can take heart in the fact that “the people” are truly on their side, if only they showed up.  Last night, Maine’s Question 1 passed 53-47 – despite a much higher turnout than expected (we matched last year’s Obama level at the University of Maine in Orono, winning the campus 81-19.)  The “No on 1” campaign also had a far greater field presence than the opposition, and superior financial resources.  It reminds me of 2004, when Bush won despite<\/a> the progressive base voting in record numbers.  When California’s Proposition 8 passed last year<\/a>, everyone could tell that our side ran an awful campaign.  It was painful, but gave us many lessons to learn – lessons that the “No on 1” campaign in Maine took to heart, and performed beautifully.  That’s why this loss is so much worse than Prop 8.  I don’t know what we could have done differently, and am too sleep-deprived to think it all through.<\/p>\n

Paul Hogarth is the Managing Editor of Beyond Chron, San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily, where this piece was first published.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate losing elections, but what I REALLY<\/i> hate is losing after a high turnout.  Losing because our base didn’t vote is depressing, but at least it tells us what we need to do to win next time – and progressives can take heart in the fact that “the people” are truly on their side, if only they showed up.  Last night, Maine’s Question 1 passed 53-47 – despite a much higher turnout than expected (we matched last year’s Obama level at the University of Maine in Orono, winning the campus 81-19.)  The “No on 1” campaign also had a far greater field presence than the opposition, and superior financial resources.  It reminds me of 2004, when Bush won despite<\/a> the progressive base voting in record numbers.  When California’s Proposition 8 passed last year<\/a>, everyone could tell that our side ran an awful campaign.  It was painful, but gave us many lessons to learn – lessons that the “No on 1” campaign in Maine took to heart, and performed beautifully.  That’s why this loss is so much worse than Prop 8.  I don’t know what we could have done differently, and am too sleep-deprived to think it all through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1608],"tags":[537,8009,1203],"class_list":["post-10414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608","tag-537","tag-8009","tag-1203"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2HY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}