Interesting Ballot Initiatives

South Dakota Ballot Measure Banning Abortion:

Yes: 45%
No: 55%

CNN has called this race for "No"

South Dakota Ballot Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriage:

Yes: 52%
No: 48%

Not yet called

Tennessee Ballot Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriage:

Yes: 81%
No: 19%

CNN has called this race for "Yes"

Arizona Ballot Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriage:

Yes: 48%
No: 52%

Not yet called

States across the union in recent years have not hesitated to show their disdain for gay people by overwhelmingly amending their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. South Dakotans, at least, aren't as eager to ban abortions. Meanwhile, Tennesseans seem to be more fearful of homosexuals than any other state with such a measure on the ballot. Arizona, by contrast, may be the rare state that says, "Gays are OK," and defeats a proposed anti-gay-marriage amendment.

In other ballot-measure news all but one of the states voting on whether to increase the minimum wage have decided to do so. A higher minimum wage is winning in Colorado, but the contest has yet to be called.