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Actually, if you look at the statistics, more than 5% of voters in the last presidential election identified themselves as "gay or lesbian."

So, if you extrapolate from that, you're talking about almost 2% of the total vote was a gay person voting for Bush.

If you took that away, he wouldn't be President.

Their vote is larger than the Jewish vote and about the size of the Hispanic vote.

I realize that many of the more strident ideologues on this issue like to minimize their numbers, but these are the facts and if you want to win elections you look at the facts.

And the facts are that they are a swing vote, an important bloc, and I for one do not want to lose one vote in 2004 in re electing the President.

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and Jeb Bush won the support of Motorcyclists who probably outnumber the homosexuals who voted. So what. Find any group with 250 people and THEY are the ones who put 43 over the top.

Victory is claimed by thousands, defeat is an orphan.