Posted on 10/24/2010 11:45:04 AM PDT by max americana
CHICAGO – Kate Coatar is seriously considering voting for Green Party candidates instead of Democrats, whom she normally supports. James Wyatt won't cast a ballot at all because he no longer trusts anyone to fight for causes important to him.
If Democratic candidates are counting on long-standing support from gay voters to help stave off big losses on Nov. 2, they could be in for a surprise.
Across the country, activists say gay voters are angry — at the lack of progress on issues from eliminating employment discrimination to uncertainty over serving in the military to the economy — and some are choosing to sit out this election or look for other candidates.
President Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago, with its large, politically and socially active gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, offers a snapshot of what some are calling the "enthusiasm gap" between voters who came out strong for Obama and other Democrats in 2008 and re-energized Republican base voters, including tea party enthusiasts who say they are primed to storm the polls.
It didn't help that the controversy over the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays erupted less than two weeks before the election, when a judge overturned it, then Obama's justice department decided to fight the judge's decision. On Thursday, the Defense Department declared that "don't ask, don't tell" is official policy but set up a new system that could make it tougher to get thrown of the military for being openly gay.
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(I thought gays were used to "piggybacking"...cough)
why do the gays always get so butt-hurt over everything?
kind of like muzzies that way
good for them, maybe one day they will see the light that socialism is bad.
You would think by now the pain would be minimal.
Gays are 2% of the US population, boo hoo. Get back in the damn closet where you belong and STFU.
For that to happen in significant numbers they’ll have to come to see that the sodomite lifestyle is evil.
One day they will see the light and realize that NOBODY likes them.
lots of purse swinging going on out there
Gay’s don’t represent big enough numbers to sway elections. What they should be talking about is how conservatives sway elections because this race will be determined by one thing and that is the quality of the Republican candidate which sucks and he supports homos, abortion, gun bans, and voted for Cap and Trade. If he loses it will be because he is a liberal.
Well said. Pushing for open homos in the military didnt help their cause either.
Perhaps they should begin thinking before they vote.
Part of Rush’s reverse Operation Chaos? He urged the Hillbuzz babes to just not vote.
People of ill repute... convicts, sodomites and actors... shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
You have a very good memory...Obama did state that he was opposed to gay marriage. That’s why conservatives think with their heads and lib morons use their “other” head to do their thinking for them.
Its part of the job
That’s why we’re the elephants, and they’re the jackasses.
FGS, other than auto workers, who would be happy with the maoist.
and 1% of the populace in comfortable shoes will stay home and wash their Subarus rather than vote for the Marxists.
The socialists have noticed the other 70% that are coming with pitchforks. And they are running like rats off the ship.
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