In announcing its decision to wait until 2012 to qualify an initiative legalizing same-sex marriage, Equality California released this extensive plan for victory.

It's worth a read, even if you don't care about marriage equality. Why? Because the document is blunt -- and detailed -- in explaining the difficulties of drawing young voters to the polls.

The same-sex marriage issue is largely about age. If the electorate is young enough, same-sex marriage advocates will win. The main reason why they want to wait until 2012 is because the electorate is likely to be younger in 2012, a presidential election year. Why's that? Because young voters don't show up for state elections--and no one has figured out a way to do much of anything about that.

From the Equality California plan: