Marital Discord:Why Prop 8 Won

In this article, I noticed a lot that the main strategy used by the writer was comparing and contrasting between two different walks of life. This was done easily because this is a widely known 2 sided issue that has been disscussed for the past several months. What the writer, Richard Kim, also did was used facts to help make what he said believable which in writing is key if you want people to believe what you write on paper or online. I believe the point that he was trying to make was in previous polls where people opposed to Prop 8 had shown up and spoken out when the votes didn't count just yet, disappeared in the actual election. And that groups of people that claimed to stand up for peoples rights, allll people, did not show support for the gay community. This made the reader think, then who really does support this Prop and why did it fail when it seemed as though so many people supported it before the actual election? That was his point when writing, that people claimed one thing and did another when it came down to it. So in turn it makes you think, who can you really rely on when you need something or believe in something and need support?