$215 million they spent on TV ads were successful.But while the election may not have gone the way many of us had hoped, there were more than a few rainbow silver linings.
Queer representation grew in Congress, Tammy Baldwin defied to odds and won her very tough re-election effort, and both Colorado and California strengthened protections for same-sex couples in their states by repealing bans on gay marriage that passed in the mid-aughts.