Well, in the light of political voting all around the country today, we will be going over the Proposition 8, which has been causing a quite a stir among the advertisers online.

First, we will look at the 2 main sites, one which supports Prop 8 and the other one that doesn’t.

http://www.noonprop8.com - No On Prop 8 is a site that features California politicians such as Senator Diane Feinstein claiming that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional and about discrimination.

http://www.protectmarriage.com - Protect Marriage is a site that doesn’t feature any politicians and claims that this Proposition will “protect” people’s marriages.  Speaking of, our marriages aren’t protected enough already?  I don’t think there’s any more things to “protect”.

Anyways, I don’t want to get involved in the politics here, just the web traffic.

Here’s it is:

As far as web traffic, I think ProtectMarriage.com is doing really well due to the fact that they spent a LOT of money on Google AdWords ads, I’ve seen a slew of them on my site as of yesterday.

Will that be a factor in people’s votes for Prop 8?

Well, to a certain extent yes, but it’s really going to be up to the voters who have to be educated enough to make their own decision.

In my opinion, Prop 8 does look like a completely targetted bomb towards California’s recent legalization of gay marriage.  I think it will be very unfair for those people who have been fighting for their rights, only to be anulled by some new Federal law.

Am I educated enough?  I think so, I live in a very diverse community of Asian, White, Black, and Gay people and I know how each of those groups are like and many of my friends are spread among different races, even redneck people.  Yes, I do believe San Francisco is slightly ahead of rest of the U.S. as far as cultural diversity is concerned.  People are more about who’s better, not what color or sexual orientation someone is.

If San Franciscans or Californians were still stuck behind the discrimination curtain, we wouldn’t be the #2 greenest city in the world or the fact that people all over the world “flock” to this small, peninsula city.

I also do feel New York is sorta similar on the East Coast.  As far as the “rest” of the U.S., I think we still need to go over 4th grade history class couple more times on Constitutional rights.  Okay, that’s far-fetched idea for those of you who are still not “diverse”.

How about ProtectGayMarriage.com?

I think this has absolutely everything to do with civil rights movement and the decision to voting against gay marriage will have a devastating effects on some gay people who are already married.  Not that I care that much, that’s why I’d vote against anything unconstitutional.

You don’t have to be gay to protect people’s rights.  You are one of the people too.  Vote No on Prop 8, it sounds like bunch of BS to me.

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