A poll of likely California voters done shortly before the election showed Proposition 8 trailing, yet the initiative passed by roughly 5 percentage points. Some believe high turnout among African American and Latino voters, who tend to oppose gay marriage, pushed the initiative over the edge. Others say that heavy last minute campaigning in churches by Prop 8 supporters brought extra Christian conservatives to the polls. Who voted for Proposition 8, and why? Larry Mantle talks with Fernando Guerra, Director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University and David McCuan, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sonoma State University.
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