Big problem too with the gay and radical vote. If the Dems move off their support for the gays on the marriage issue they stand to lose both the gay and the radical vote, perhaps to some third party. A five percent slip if they can't back fill it will leave them off the map in at least three states.
Did you know that GW Bush garnered 26% of the gay and lesbian vote? Why? It's security, stupid!!! Many gays and lesbians realized that electing John Kerry would be viewed throughout the Arab terrorist world as a victory for their side, which it would have clearly been. Kerry working with that criminal Kofi Annan and the UN would have eased up on the war on terror, and gone back to a pre-911 world environment. This would have allowed for unabated terrorist movement into the USA as never before. Bottom line is Muslim terrorists hate all gays and lesbians. Gays would not have lasted for a New York minute, once Osama bin Laden and the boys open season on Americans. By the way, this hate also applies to Jews, Christians, Blacks, Women, etc. Women certainly got it, so did Christians. American Jews have their own death wish or they would never vote for the Demoicrat Party. And...Blacks, alas, they are lost at sea. The election of 2004 has rendered them politically powerless by their own hand. The NAACP and The Black Congressional Caucus are now effectively just social and meeting clubs.