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Gay voters angry at Democrats could sway election (it's hissy fit time..)
yahoo/cr AP ^ | oct 24, 2010 | TAMMY WEBBER

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; california; chicago; elections; gays; gayvote; hissyfit; homosexualagenda; illinois
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"Once they're elected, they're not fighting for things like civil unions or same-sex marriage or ending 'don't ask, don't tell' because they're hot-button issues," said Wyatt, who usually supports Democrats. "We're just used as a piggyback for them to get into office. It's absurd." ****

(I thought gays were used to "piggybacking"...cough)

1 posted on 10/24/2010 11:45:09 AM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

why do the gays always get so butt-hurt over everything?


2 posted on 10/24/2010 11:47:03 AM PDT by Pavegunner72
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To: max americana

3 posted on 10/24/2010 11:48:32 AM PDT by library user
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To: Pavegunner72

kind of like muzzies that way


4 posted on 10/24/2010 11:49:24 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: max americana

good for them, maybe one day they will see the light that socialism is bad.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 11:49:43 AM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: Pavegunner72

You would think by now the pain would be minimal.


6 posted on 10/24/2010 11:49:55 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: max americana
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.

Gays are 2% of the US population, boo hoo. Get back in the damn closet where you belong and STFU.

7 posted on 10/24/2010 11:50:45 AM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: Perdogg

For that to happen in significant numbers they’ll have to come to see that the sodomite lifestyle is evil.


8 posted on 10/24/2010 11:51:37 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Perdogg

One day they will see the light and realize that NOBODY likes them.


9 posted on 10/24/2010 11:51:39 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: max americana

lots of purse swinging going on out there


10 posted on 10/24/2010 11:52:04 AM PDT by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: max americana

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.


11 posted on 10/24/2010 11:52:08 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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Well said. Pushing for open homos in the military didnt help their cause either.


12 posted on 10/24/2010 11:54:53 AM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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Why are gays mad at Democrats? They did exactly what they said they were going to do. Obama clearly stated during the campaign that he was opposed to gay marriage. And Democrats are the ones that gave us 'Don't Ask - Don't Tell' to begin with. Come to think of it, it was also Democrats that banned homosexuals from military service to begin with.

Perhaps they should begin thinking before they vote.

13 posted on 10/24/2010 11:55:16 AM PDT by Hoodat ( .For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.d)
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To: max americana

Part of Rush’s reverse Operation Chaos? He urged the Hillbuzz babes to just not vote.


14 posted on 10/24/2010 11:55:39 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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People of ill repute... convicts, sodomites and actors... shouldn’t be allowed to vote.


15 posted on 10/24/2010 11:56:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Hoodat

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.


16 posted on 10/24/2010 11:57:44 AM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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To: Pavegunner72

Its part of the job


17 posted on 10/24/2010 11:57:49 AM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: max americana

That’s why we’re the elephants, and they’re the jackasses.


18 posted on 10/24/2010 12:03:03 PM PDT by Hoodat ( .For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.d)
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To: max americana

FGS, other than auto workers, who would be happy with the maoist.


19 posted on 10/24/2010 12:12:58 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: max americana

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.


20 posted on 10/24/2010 12:17:34 PM PDT by mike-zed
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