Maine is reason #31 why marriage is a winning issue and the thirty other reasons are the other states who have had the definition of marriage being between on man and one woman upheld by the electorate.  Traditional marriage has never lost on the ballot............never............not even in the liberal northeast.............not anywhere in this Obamanation.  Traditional marriage even prevailed when his name was at the top of the ticket last November.

What is interesting about the Maine vote, however, is that the voters gave the middle finger to the very people they elected to represent them.  The Maine legislature imposed a law providing gay marriage and yesterday the people spoke and rejected that law.  (Maine doesn't know how lucky they are to actually have their elected officials make the gay marriage law instead of the courts unconstitutionally doing it or to have their elected officials actually do something about marriage-even if it was the wrong decision.  We don't have that luxury in Iowa.)

While the rest of the country embraces the stance for traditional marriage and flocks to the polls to uphold it, the GOP continues to move away from the issue because they think they are alienating people and that people just don't care.  The Republican party is ignoring the marriage issue nationally and also at our state level even though it has the definition in its platform.  I have yet to see one update from yesterday's elections from either the RNC or the Iowa GOP on the win in Maine and how traditional marriage is now 31 for 31.  They wouldn't know a winning issue if it slapped them in the face.

Remember, according to our former Governor Terry Branstad in order to win we shouldn't "wear our conservatism on our sleeve."  Even though traditional marriage always prevails on a ballot and 70% of Iowans want their chance to vote on that issue, it is supposedly a non-starter.  Perhaps some people choose not to wear conservatism on their sleeve because they don't have enough of it to fill up the sleeves of a muscle shirt.