ELECTION SWEEP FOR MARRIAGE: Maggie Gallagher

Call last night the victory of the values voter.

In Ohio, ABC News reports last night that the top issue for Bush voters was not terrorism, or the economy or Iraq: it was "moral values." Thirty-eight percent of Bush voters listed the issue as their top concern.

State constitutional marriage amendments passed in all thirteen states: AR (75%), GA (77%), KY(75%), LA (78%), MI (59%), MS (86%), MO (72%), MT (66%), ND (73%), OH (62%), OK (76%), OR (57%), UT (66%). The constitutional amendment in Oregon now ends the court case that had ruled against the marriage laws.

The Oregon victory is particularly significant. The Human Rights Campaign and other gay marriage advocates concentrated their forces on this one small state (inexpensive media market, more secular than most states). They lost by a healthy margin.

Without the values voters, Pres. Bush would not be President.

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