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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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That's my view.
I get standing for rights and everything. But I need him to win over Romney, and I'm afraid that he's set himself back by saying this.
I feel like either way he had the LGBTQ vote over Romney anyway, so it wasn't reeeally necessary to say that.
Some people are saying he did it to be popular, but I don't think this makes him popular.
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