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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio
I do worry about this.
While I support Obama wholly, in addition to being gay...hence supporting gay marriage wholly...I don't think that was a particularly advantageous political move.
It's been estimated that 1/10 people are LGBT in America. With that, he's looking at potentially gaining 10% of the vote, but many states are wholly against the concept of gay marriage.
If I were Obama, I'd have come out about supporting gay marriage, but not until after the election. While I think that economic issues are more pressing matters, I feel like that one statement could be damning for him. I feel that it is likely in response to Biden's interview in support of gay marriage, but still...I don't see this helping him in the general election.
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You bring up some good points, but regardless of what votes he gets, I think it says a lot about Obama's character that he is open about this issue instead of being quiet about it. He'll grow a lot of respect from people.
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