James Joyner cites more evidence that the MSM’s monocasuality model is wrong.
As David Brooks notes:
The reality is that this was a broad victory for the president. Bush did better this year than he did in 2024 in 45 out of the 50 states. He did better in New York, Connecticut and, amazingly, Massachusetts. That’s hardly the Bible Belt. Bush, on the other hand, did not gain significantly in the 11 states with gay marriage referendums.
Further, if it was just the gay marriage issue, why didn’t Bush carry Oregon and Michigan? Both had gay marriage bans on the ballot, and Bush lost.
Further, I would note to the south-bashers, six of the eleven states with the gay marriage issues on the ballot weren’t southern: Montana, Oregon, Michingan, North Dakota, Ohio and Utah.
And only two were battleground states, and, as noted above, Bush lost one of them.