My gut says it would hurt, but as I think about it I don’t know if it will make a difference. People are already pretty much entrenched in these positions and I don’t konw that this changes any minds. I mean, did you think a liberal was going to vote for him anyway?
RE: My gut says it would hurt
My guts say it will hurt ONLY IN VERY BLUE STATES. It will help IN VERY RED STATES. Purple states will not care one way or the other.
In the very blue state of NY ( especially the city for instance ), Carl Paladino (who was running for NY State Governor ) actually publicly stated that :
1) He is against marriage ( in a speech to an Orthodox Jewish Community )
2) He disapproves of Andrew Cuomo bringing his young daughters to a Gay Pride Parade.
He was loudly excoriated by the NY press for that. See here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/10/carl-paladino-firestorm-over-g.html
Needless to say, the press kept hammering this issue until he lost momentum. You know the result.
I agree. Herman is not going to get the Libs and the college kids anyway or the gays so he might as well say what he thinks. The fundamentalists will eat it up and supposedly the average independent leans right. Anyway this time around its all about jobs and the economy.