As long as the Reps make the election a referendum on Obama and his policies, the Reps will win. The GOP would be stupid to make gay marriage or any other social issue a centerpiece of its campaign. The people now know where Obama stands on this issue along with a number of other issues. He is painting himself in a corner that will make him look more and more extreme--out of touch with the American people.
Obama is becoming more radical because he is more desperate. I am sure his internal polls are showing a giant disaster looming. Many Dem candidates don't want to be seen with him and will be distancing themselves from him on the campaign trail. Let's see how many Dem incumbents start supporting gay marriage on the stump.
“I am sure his internal polls are showing a giant disaster looming. “
Make no mistake. If and when Obama loses big, the revisionists won’t blame his horrible record...
they will say it was because America is homophobic.
I disagree. That was the exact opposite of what happened in the campaign in Canada, where the Conservatives said they would hold a vote to repeal the ban but soft-pedalled the issue and were very defensive in their comments instead of attacking their opponents for trying to destroy traditional marriage. The reason they soft pedalled was because of a small, but influential homosexual group within the Party which they did not want to offend. The end result was that the Conservatives tossed away a wedge issue that could have pried many socially conservative voters away from their traditional home in the LIberal Party members. Ronald Reagan showed how to win the Irish-Polish-Italian Catholics who traditionally vote for the Dems in states such as Pennsylvannia, to the extent that they became known as “Reagan Democrats”. You won’t win converts by soft pedalling this issue and letting the Dems have a free run in the rhetorical wars. If the Republicans want this issue to be a winner, they have to make traditional marriage a key part of their platform.