Brad Pitt vs. Joe the Plumber

Election 2008: Hollywood high finance couldn’t prevent Main Street from passing marriage-protection initiatives in three states | Lynn Vincent

Associated Press/Photo by Mark Avery

SAN DIEGO—When the clock struck 8 p.m. on Nov. 4, Miles McPherson started surfing for election returns. Opting out of the official watch party for California's Proposition 8, the marriage-protection amendment he'd help to spearhead, McPherson, senior pastor of The Rock Church in San Diego, chose instead to stay home and surf televised and online voting data.

But as the clock ticked, news on Prop 8 rolled in at the speed of mud. After an hour or so, scattered reports emerged that the measure, which would re-ban gay marriage in California, had taken an early lead. But the margin was narrow and dicey, with only a slim sampling of precincts reporting.

At 11 p.m., McPherson went into his den, where he spent an hour alternating between prayer and checking the secretary of state's website. He laughs: "I'd pray for 10 minutes, then refresh the site, pray for 10 minutes, then refresh the site. I was praying those numbers up."

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