I’m beyond stoked about the results of last night’s election. I have never seen the whole world happier about something like this. I have high hopes for our new President and I am so happy to see everyone else so happy. I know Obama is the really big news, but I can’t totally ignore the disappointing results of a few ballot measures in various states.

First of all, I am happy with a lot of the ballot measure results. I am happy to see progress made for marijuana and euthanasia, and I am really happy to see that even the red staters are upholding a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. Great job, fellow Americans.

Now here is the bad news, every state that gave voters a chance to be mean and hateful towards same sex couples did the wrong thing. I am especially disappointed in you, California. WTF? The good news is the haters are on the way out and eventually we will have gay marriage nation-wide. Don’t believe it? Check out the CNN exit polls for the states that had these gay marriage ban measures. The important thing to look at is what voters did by age group. Notice all the hate-free 18-29 year olds?  The 18-24 year olds are even better. So eventually the jerks in this country are going to be the minority as we march into the future. Progress always wins out eventually and this embarrassing period will be frowned on the same way we now frown on past bans on interracial marriage.

I am disappointed to see us moving so slowly on this gross inequality, but I can’t help feeling really happy about all the other giant steps we saw the country take last night.