Almost immediately after Proposition 8 passed people from both sides of the issue scrambled to make sense of what had happened and how it passed. They both began examining exit polling, which put into perspective who voted on the ballot and their background. A few weeks after the election of the first African American president, a lie was circulated that African American support helped push Prop 8 into law. The overwhelming support African Americans supposedly has shown in exit polling for Prop 8 has proven to be a huge exaggeration.
The problem I have with the way Prop 8 was covered before the election, up to the election, and after the election was who was blamed for certain things. Especially when the media hardly mentioned things like this, which if true, should have been reported on, unlike the half-truth in the above link. I feel as though the more important stories are not really making it into the media and the only way to find the important stories are finding them in the new media outlets. It is sad if it has come to this, but I suppose it is a part of the ever evolving world we live in.
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