Seth Dillingham wrote:
>I understand why so many webloggers came out so strongly against Bush.
>(Personally, as I told Corinne, I was going to be deeply disappointed
>no matter who won.) Still, it's interesting to see much of the country
>make a connection here that none of the pundits really expected.
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>The media may or may not be mostly-liberal, and the weblogging
>community most definitely does track strongly to the left, but that
>doesn't mean the country follows. Agree or disagree with what they've
>chosen, I find it quite refreshing that the people made a choice
>contrary to the expectations and wishes of the bias all around them.
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I moreorless support gay marriage, but the problem is that the media
portrays opponents of gay marraige as a bunch of redneck bigots and the
current strategy for instituting gay marriage is to bypass legislatures
and go to the courts. Nobody should be surprised that when you tell a
sizable part of the population that they're a bunch of bigoted morons
whose opinion won't matter because of activist judges, that those people
go out en masses and vote for these state Constitutional amendments.
The same thing has happened on a much smaller scale with hunting and
fishing, where outdoorsman have said they're not going to wait for some
activist judge or PETA campaign to ban hunting or fishing, they're going
to pre-emptively push for amendments that enshrine the right to hunt and
fish in their state Constitutions.
