Maine Question 1: We're Working too Hard to Lose ...

SOUTH PORTLAND - I'm writing this on Monday, November 2nd at 2:00 a.m., and will get up early so I will be brief. This weekend has been intense, as myself and Jay Jonah Cash have placed "No on 1" campaign volunteers from New Hampshire, New York, Boston, Vermont and 20 Yale students in a South Portland hotel for our Drive for Equality program. It's inspiring to see the passion as we sense this election's national implications for marriage equality. And we're still on the phones and sending out e-mails, asking folks to make spur-of-the-moment plans to drive up to Maine. Sign up at our website, and we'll stuff as many committed volunteers into hotel rooms as we can. We have a better ground game than our opposition, but it will be close. Literally before going to my bedroom for the night, a new poll came out with us down by 4 points. "We expect there to be almost twice as many voters over 65 as young voters," said the pollsters, "but if that gap narrows so would the vote on Question 1. With a race as close as this, it all comes down to which side can get its people out to the polls. It could go either way depending on who actually shows up to vote." We're working too hard to lose this ...

 

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Comments

[BluePrideStephen]

As goes Maine...

[The Professor]

If it wasn't for the volunteers and money on both sides, Mainers could decide the question for themselves. Now the vote is so polluted that however the vote goes, we won't see the true wishes of the voters in Maine.

[Estin Vogel]

Yay! UMASS Amherst had three students there too! Keep fighting guys!!! We'll make it!!!

[kcflood]

It makes me sick that we have to work this hard for people to VOTE on a civil right. What if we voted on civil rights back in the 1950's ....? Woman's rights in the 1920's...? Slavery rights in 1860's....­?

[S1m0n]

It makes many people sick, but there is a silver lining. The ultimate outcome of this fight isn't much in doubt, considering the huge demographic element. This battle is quite literally inter-generational, and will end with the old guard's passing.

But getting organised and motivated to fight for equal rights is an act which will pay future dividends in many other battles.

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

If ground game and funding can win Maine, then it's OURS. Washington state too.
I know several volunteers both Maine residents and vacation visitors working as hard as they can. They are both straight and gay, (seniors, middle aged, and young.)
Maine voters PLEASE take the time to vote for gay/lesbian families, and say NO to secret out state donors who STILL hide their donor's names.