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I had not heard about the prop 8 data being wrong. Can you link to correct data?[/quote]

Here's more information.

1. The study with the correct data
http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/issues/egan_sherrill_prop8_1_6_09.pdf

2. This article by Ta-Nehisi Coates, where he makes the following interesting points:

[quote]1.) The 70 percent figure for black support of Prop 8 is wildly overblown, and in conflict with all the other polling done. [b]The study concludes that 58 percent is a more likely number. To put that in context, the study also concludes that 59 percent of Latinos supported prop 8. [/b]That isn't one-up-manship--it just means we were about the same.

2.) Black people almost certainly did not account for 10 percent of the voters on Prop 8, they accounted for seven percent

3.) 58 percent is still higher than the 52 percent for the state, as a whole, but that difference is almost entirely accounted for by the fact that no ethnic group in California is as religiously devout as (as measured by church attendance) African-Americans.

4.)[b] Among those who attended church weekly, African-American support for Prop 8 was lower than amongst any other ethnic group.[/b]
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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/01/prop-8-and-blaming-the-blacks/6548/[/quote]

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