CNN Projects Ballot Question 1 Wins

This is based on their exit polls, NLS is unable to project until we get some precinct returns.

UPDATE: 7:57 p.m.  NLS projects that "YES" wins.

Comments

[Southern Democrat]

so basically there is no real reason to think this is credible results?

i think it will pass...but this is a little early

[Ben Kyber]

If they're projecting this so soon, it must be a pretty large margin.

That sucks a lot.

[UVA08]

Webb gets 56% of the woman vote!

[Hans Bader]

That surprises me.

I know hardly anyone who voted for it.

Then again, I live in northern Virginia, the one region of the state where it probably failed by a large margin.

[Doug]

Does Reilly have to be poster child? I'm puking a little each minute.

[UVA08]

Does anyone know how does the vetran vote usually break?

[Doug]

UVA- Veterans usually break conservative.

[UVA08]

I found it Kerry only got 36% of the verteran vote, apparently Webb got 43%

[Sophrosyne]

Thank you Virginia for voting YES for Marriage!

I was at the polls all day and saw some horrible distortions coming from the anti-marriage amendment crowd... thankfully the good people of Virginia didn't buy it and embraced the obvious-- Marriage is the union of one-man and one-woman and same-sex "marriage" in another name is not acceptable.

Fox is reporting that Webb got roughly 30% of the marriage vote.

Any thoughts?

[MFLetou]

Yeah, I was out there in a NoVA (fairly liberal) precinct, and the marriage amendment was doing extremey well. This thing is going to be a yes landslide...

Passing easily. Thank God there are moral people in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

So much for the pathetic pro-homosexual marriage spinning that this site has undertaken. "#1 is too close to call!" ROFL.

You have lost all credibility.

[Roy B. Scherer]

I spent 11 hours at the polling place yesterday, in the rain, on this issue. At that site, and in Richmond generally, the amendment failed.
For those of you who voted for the amendment, I can only repeat, "Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do."
Here's the perspective that you did NOT consider before you voted:
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Editor, Times-Dispatch:

I'd like to encourage people to vote for the children on Tuesday.

Two of my close friends have been together for fourteen years, and they have two children, twelve and seven years old. They're delightful, and both of their mothers love them very much.

Their birth mother stays at home, minds the house, and home-schools the children. Their other mother works at her profession, pays the mortgage and other bills, and helps with the house and the kids.

Since the parents realize that sometimes bad things can happen, they've taken the precaution of making a contract (something that would not have been necessary if they had been allowed to marry). The breadwinner has acknowledged that the children are hers, and that she assumes full responsibility for their care and education. Should they break up, or if their birth mother should die, the children are provided for. Also, the birth mother and the children are covered under the other mother's insurance policy at work.

That is, they are provided for right now. If the so-called marriage amendment is passed, both the insurance and the contract will be explicitly nullified, since they provide the “rights, benefits, [and] obligations” of marriage. That means that if the birth mother or either of the children should have a serious illness, the insurance that they've been paying for (for years) will not be allowed to cover it, and the family will go bankrupt. It also means that if the birth mother should die, their other mother will no longer have an obligation, nor even any right, to care for them. The Commonwealth would have to take the children and place them in an orphanage or in foster homes.

Please, vote for the children, and defeat the so-called marriage amendment.

-- Roy B. Scherer
-- Richmond

[Hans Bader]

I thought it would win narrowly. I never thought it would get 57 percent of the vote.

In Arizona, a similar measure only got 49 percent of the vote.

It's an odd thing to put in the state bill of rights.