Gay superdelegates may hold key in Dem prez race

Bay Area Reporter ^ | 2/21/08 | Lisa Keen

[SunkenCiv]

The superdelegate system itself is pretty gay.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974030/posts?page=90#90

[SunkenCiv]

At a time when momentum and political pundits seem to favor Barack Obama winning the Democratic presidential nomination, other indicators suggest the LGBT community's support is still largely behind Hillary Clinton, except in Texas... "I'm living and breathing it," said Eric Stern, a former head of the National Stonewall Democrats group who supported Democrat John Edwards until he dropped out last month. Stern says he has been "tasked" by the Obama campaign to "create and lead LGBT steering committees in Ohio and Texas." Stern and a small group of LGBT volunteers are planning events in cities with large gay populations in both states -- not to raise money for Obama, said Stern, but "just to talk to LGBT voters about why to support Obama." ...Most political pundits say neither candidate can reach the necessary 2,025 delegate mark through the remaining primaries and caucuses. So much attention in the Democratic Party -- including that of the National Stonewall Democrats -- has shifted to superdelegates.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

I’m not sure I like seeing “gay” and “zip” linked in the first place...

[SunkenCiv]

...heavily gay Zip codes... gay-dense Zip codes... gay-heavy Zip codes...

The heaviest ones end in 69?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wonkette has a video....have not watched it....

[pissant]

She just glommed on to Larry Sinclair’s homemade Youtube video.

[Richard Kimball]

A lot of profiling is done by zip code. Whether intentionally or accidentally, the US postal service set up one of the most effective demographic profiling methods possible.

[neverdem]

Noting that a recent exit poll in California and New York showed lesbian, gay, and bisexual voters were 4 percent and 7 percent of the electorate, respectively, he said he expects the numbers in Texas and Ohio to be "sizeable."

Those are remarkable numbers. IMHO, it reflects the tendency of those folks to move to those states.

[SunkenCiv]

The gay population worldwide is no more than 2 per cent; the US demographic data is exaggerated as a general thing, usually doubled or more.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"What is LGBT? I thought editors forbade the use of acronyms without a definition at the first instance of said acronym."

Lesbians, Gays, Bears and Twinks.

(Hat tip to Dunlap at Red State Update)

[trumandogz]

Log Cabin Democrats?