until just days before the vote went down (though some of us diaried it earlier, they slipped off the page quickly).

Once it made it to a front-page story, it took some time for the implications to be discussed and understood, as it was at first unclear to many.

We need more lead time to build an effort: make sure kos people are informed, reach out to other networks, contact reps, even start petitions and public education campaigns. A couple of days is nowhere near enough.