"I don't think anybody knows when is the best time to go back," Jacobs said. "My philosophy is having it go every time, and eventually we will win."

Californians will be going to the polls in 2010 to elect a new Governor, so turnout will likely be high. There's also perhaps never been a more energized core of activists wanting to enact marriage equality. Just look at the people who poured into the streets during the wake of Prop 8's victory, and the way that Prop 8 thrust same-sex marriage into the national dialogue like no other statewide initiative this year.