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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I don't think it will, it is a cynical ploy to catch votes...and I'm sure that many americans will see through his abysmal opportunism.
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I think you are dead wrong on this one, hon. I think that Obama's decision comes from conviction. And, on the whole, it is voter neutral. People who are in favor of same sex unions would vote Democrat anyway ... and those who oppose it (along with taxes, affirmative action, govt. funded health care, a woman's right to control over her body ... this right is, I believe, guaranteed by the ninth and fourteenth ammendments ... ) would never vote Democrat anyway. Take North Carolina, for example, if Obama got rid of all taxes, and promised that everyone over the age of two would get a free assault rifle, he still couldn't take that State. It doesn't help Romney one bit. He has enough problems trying, as a Mormon, to convince the ultra-right, born again Christian nutbars to support him. Most of these idiots consider Romney too liberal.
Still don't see why this is an issue in the US and the UK.
I would like to find some stats on how gays vote ... I have a feeling that they tend to vote in large numbers.