Gay Adoption and the Turnout game. Rove strikes again? (w/ poll)

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.

These fourteen states have referendums on the ballot for this November to ban gay adoption.

In the last national election, only three of these went blue.

In most of the others, particularly Ohio, the presence of a gay marriage referendum was credited as causing a high turnout of evangelical Christians and other social conservatives which boosted the Republican vote.

Anybody see the hand of Karl Rove moving silently behind the curtain again?

And if so, how do we go about convincing well-meaning people that having a couple of guys named Bob with a child living next door is a hell of a lot more palatable (and better for family life) than losing a job at GM and having to go to work at Wal-Mart for half the wage and none of the benefits?