The race to win hearts, minds, and votes on Proposition 8 has both sides straining to pull ahead. The Yes on 8 campaign -- the conservative coalition that aims to deny marriage to same-sex couples -- has been deploying volunteers on the ground: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, some 15,000 Mormons, Catholics, and evangelicals went door-to-door during the past two weekends.
The Yes on 8 campaign was not available to comment on the talking points distributed to volunteers.
But according to the Chronicle, volunteers did not refer to the initiative as it appears on the ballot -- “Eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry.” Instead, they simply told residents they were campaigning for Proposition 8, an initiative that would define marriage as being between a man and a woman. Volunteers “didn’t mention same-sex marriage unless a resident brought it up.”
That presentation is misleading at best. So who’s knocking on those same doors with the facts on behalf of marriage equality?
Scott Smith, senior consultant for the No on Prop 8 campaign, has his volunteers phoning it in.
“We’re calling thousands of folks every weekend, and we will be doing that straight through [to the election],” Smith told The Advocate. “Because so many of the voters in California have already made up their minds yes or no, there’s about 20% that haven’t. It is just more efficient calling people than it is going down doors when four out of every five doors, the folks have already made up their mind.”
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