For those of you who think Bush was elected based on Gay marriage....

[phatmonky]

From another board I am on.....

It's been driving me nuts seeing the way some are trying to rationalize this election while overlooking the fact that this country has never defeated an incumbent during a time of war. People have misinterpreted 2 disparate issues and attempted to lump certain ballot initiatives together with the general election which I think shows a minority of the reason Bush was reelected (when I think 9/11/terrorism/fear/war were the real reasons people weren't going to vote him out)

To that end I present the following election results which I think illustrate this point very nicely:



Arkansas:

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 746,382 75%
No 248,827 25%

President
Bush 566,678 54%
Kerry 464,157 45%

Georgia:

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 2,316,327 76%
No 729,303 24%

President
Bush 1,889,545 58%
Kerry 1,345,008 41%

Kentucky

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 1,218,682 75%
No 416,145 25%

President
Bush 1,066,736 60%
Kerry 710,858 40%

Michigan

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 2,686,071 59%
No 1,902,082 41%

President
Kerry 2,471,905 51%
Bush 2,306,292 48%

Mississippi

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 915,163 86%
No 146,789 14%

President
Bush 666,396 60%
Kerry 440,255 40%

Montana

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 289,463 67%
No 145,741 33%

President
Bush 261,939 59%
Kerry 170,172 39%

Ohio

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 3,242,160 62%
No 2,010,876 38%

President
Bush 2,796,147 51%
Kerry 2,659,664 49%

North Dakota

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 222,899 73%
No 81,396 27%

President
Bush 195,998 63%
Kerry 110,662 36%

Oklahoma

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 1,075,079 76%
No 347,246 24%

President
Bush 959,655 66%
Kerry 504,077 34%

Oregon

Ban Gay Marriage
Yes 974,703 57%
No 740,321 43%

President
Kerry 888,544 52%
Bush 818,792 48%

[Evo]

I have old friends who are born again Christians in Texas and at their prayer meetings they have been going to extremes calling and writing people to push them into going to the polls to vote against the gay marriage issue and vote for Bush. The Southern Baptists had a HUGE push on this and I am certain so did other organized religious groups.

If it wasn't for this effort, it is possible Bush would have lost. We may never know exactly how responsible religious groups were for the outcome of this election, but these groups are (among themselves) taking credit for it.

[Dooga Blackrazor]

Many single issues can be credited as causing Kerry to lose. However, the reality is that all of those issues together made Bush win. But, you can still blame anyone one of them justifiably. Anti gay marriage individuals can be blamed. I go further and blame organized religion, but I'm a heretic.