Anna Rendall reports:
Now that The First Big Win was out of the way, the happy masses thronged down the halls of the Westin St. Francis Hotel to the next meeting room where the focus was on No on 8. That was before 10 p.m.
By midnight, the halls were cleared and in the ballroom, scattered couples danced leisurely to “New York, New York” as others booed and hurrahed the overhead projector, which showed poll results from different counties in California. San Francisco got a big whoop from the crowd for its No on 8 votes, but others, like Sutter County with a 70 percent approval of Proposition 8, didn’t fare well with the audience. By the time the crowd was gently sent off, no solid results had come in.