On Monday, D.C.'s Ward 5 Democrats voted down the same marriage equality resolution adopted in Wards 8, 4, and 2. Ward 8 Democrats' support for the measure may have obscured what was going to be more of a fight from the beginning; on Saturday I remember marriage equality activists remarking that "Ward 5 was going to be tough." The turnout was also much greater than in Ward 8. In ward 5, the resolution was voted down 87-51, compared to 21-11 in support in Ward 8.
UPDATE: Yesterday the Ward 6 Democrats at the Southeast Branch Public Library in Eastern Market endorsed the marriage equality resolution by a large magin, 73-3. The demographics of this group however, were significantly different than in Wards 5 and 8. It was a much whiter, more bohemian crowd.
-- A. Serwer
