Must be the M states

I was gonna start this thread: Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota on Marriage. Would have been more eye catching

Happy to see parts our nation take another step away from restriction of rights.

Woo-hoo Minnesota!  The group Minnesotans for Families United did an awesome job with education around this amendment.

I was surprised to learn while watching the results on the news last night that blank votes counted as no votes.  Of course Minnesotans for Families United didn't point this out (don't blame them), but that should have been a campaign point for the Vote Yes people.  Oops.    I have to look to see if this made a big difference, but I like to think the people who didn't vote are kicking themselves now.

That's an upside-down M, so it counts too.

I thought that the no vote = vote no issue was fairly well communicated beforehand...all the news outlets went over what it meant, and there were signs at the polling places.

I DO think the vote-yes folks could have hammered that point a little harder...but then again, to what effect? The people who are already listening to them will have voted yes. The people who aren't listening are voting no or not voting, so why spend the money on people who aren't listening.

And, of course, there's the whole notion that they took a "deliberately low-key approach" to their marketing (the Strib's phrasing, not mine). I guess they figured when you are advocating a position that is perceived by many to be extremely self-centered and narrow-minded at best, and bigoted and hate-filled at worst, low-key is the way to go...