Monday, January 30, 2006

Maybe ssm is not so safe after all.

I did some quick calculations about same-sex marriage shortly after the vote and guestimated that the conservative motion to overturn it would fail by 20 votes (see here).

Clayton over at Marriage Vote does a much more meticulous calculation and comes up with same-sex marriage surviving by just two votes.

Update As commenter Nitangae points out, Clayton's numbers seem to be firming up towards the confirmation of ssm.

3 comments:

Budd Campbell said...

Having looked down the posts on your blog it seems like you're pretty much pre-occupied with sex and morality issues to the more or less complete exclusion of everything else.

buckets said...

Thanks for pointing that out, Budd. I'll see what I can do about expanding my repetoire.

Alison said...

The in-depth research and follow-up into each individual subject is what is so outstanding about this blog ; it's so much more interesting than getting a single opinion post on a subject that is never returned to.

But I've obviously walked into what must be a private joke.
When I followed the link to Budd's Blog to see what a more expanded repertoire looks like, I discovered that Budd has posted exactly three items since last June and they are all on the subject of his disagreement with "rabble".