Which will have more impact...Prop 8 or Prop C?

Are these issues somehow linked? Why? Define impact.

Depends on what kind of impact you are talking about. I think Prop 8 will gradually set forth more ripples of change across the nation than Prop C will. But Prop C is better media bait for news networks than Prop 8. Because the news love a good story that involves Obama & includes terms like ‘grass-roots’ & ‘tea-party’. In the long run, Prop 8 will probably have more of an impact as the years go by. But short term, right now – Prop C will only feel like a major change in the nation, because it will be on every TV channel for the next few months. Also, because Prop C has a direct connection to Obama, it only leads to more news segments that begin with,“I’m standing here in front of the White House…”

@jaytkay other than timing, they are not linked at all.

Eh. Marriage equality and first-world health care are both in the future for the US.

So I guess the end of Prop 8 will have more impact.

Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee have never been known for intelligent politicians or voters. They’ve never been known for trend-setting politicians or voters.

California sets the future tone for society far more, as it should… since it has a deeper and more diverse common denominator, along with the social and scientific intelligence (and problems too) that go along with that.

So the end of Prop 8 will have more impact. (And it may be reversed through a new law… but if it is… the reversal will be reversed, and the gays, transgenders, and domestic partners will still finally get what they should have had all along: equal opportunity under law. )

They have equal impact. They each represent a power struggle that is currently heating up, between the individual sovereign states and an overly aggressive federal government that sees individual states as an impediment to central authority.
That aside, Prop 8 is background noise to me. I do not think that gay people should be denied a legal partnership/union (although I understand why people do not like the appropriation of the conventionally established word “marriage”).
On the other hand, anything to get the government out of the medical industry will make my life cheaper and simpler.