In the wake of the passage of Prop 8, there have been countless comments placing the blame at the feet of homophobic black and Latino voters, and more pointedly, black voters. Even after Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com debunked this in post-mortem analysis, one of the lessons also learned -- and this isn't an incompatible conclusion -- is that there wasn't enough face-to-face outreach to minority communities to gain additional votes to turn out against Prop 8.

Today the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Mentoring Project released a sweeping and comprehensive independent report, The Prop 8 Report: What Our Defeat in California Can Teach Us About Winning Future Ballot Measures on Same-Sex Marriage, which analyzes 10,000 pages of data unreleased during the Prop 8 campaign and concludes that many common conceptions of why the No on 8 campaign lost the November 2008 ballot measure are factually wrong.