Must be a humbling day for the theocrats who are in charge of the GOP. Losing the House is bad enough but to lose in places like South Dakota and Arizona, two traditionally conservative states, says a lot. Smear, fear and dark ages politics are so 2004.
In a triple setback for conservatives, South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.Ouch.
"What we're seeing is that fear-mongering around same-sex marriage is fizzling out," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He noted that the bans that succeeded won by much narrower margins, on average, than in the past.Where's Rove, the boy genius now?
