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Portland Daily Sun's confusing lead story about gay marriage vote
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It's pretty clear that Maine voters overturned a law allowing gay marriage, unless you read the Portland Daily Sun.
The headline reads: "Portland voters: preserve gay marriage, reject TABOR II."
The Portland Press Herald headline reads: "Mainers vote down gay marriage law."
What the Portland Daily Sun is trying to say is that voters in Portland overwhelming supported gay marriage, according to the Sun by 73 percent. However, what voters were deciding on was not a City of Portland law, but rather a state law.
The lead should have been that the gay marriage law was overturned. To tie in a local hook for Portland, the story could mention how Portland voters voted in the second or third paragraph.
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