Help: Did Santorum's polls go up or down after the gay thing???

Pittsburgh Channel ^ | June, 03 | Pittsburgh Channel

[churchillbuff]

A friend insists the GOP should stay away from this issue. To answer, I need to know how it affected Santorum.

[Pubbie]

A poll came out and it said that Santorum's comments had ZERO effect in Pennsylvania.

His approval before the comments was 55%, and after the remarks it was still 55%.

The "controversy" went nowhere.

[aimhigh]

A friend insists the GOP should stay away from this issue.

Coward. Does the friend want the conservatives to cave on every issue?

[Faith]

Poll: Gay Issue Causes Little Pain for Santorum

[RAT Patrol]

People have been intimidated into silence but not passion. Most people still think it's immoral, they just now afraid to speak out. But just like Saddam discovered, forced allegiance is flimsy allegiance. Most people would not change their vote over this (except those who don't vote GOP anyway).

[Southack]

If Santorum's polls had gone negative, you would have heard it shouted from every liberal mouthpiece in America.

Ergo, the silence tells you what you need to know.

[stars & stripes forever]

The issue is not going away. Canada just approved homosexual marriages....and the United States is next in line. There is a pending ERA bill in the Illinois Senate...which, if passed, would reactivate ERA.

35 states have already passed ERA, Illinois would be 36 with two more states to go. Wording in the bill indicates that the Constitutional Amendment time limit does not apply to ERA.

[Steely Tom]

The issue is not going away. Canada just approved homosexual marriages.

That's OK. We in the US only have to hold off the tide until a significant number of the adopted/inseminated children of these "marriages" reach the age when they can begin to describe their experiences in their own words. That will probably solve the problem.

Society has learned these lessons before, and, after forgetting, will learn them again.

(steely)

[lilylangtree]

And a RAT attempt to lott Rick Santorum goes down in flaming defeat.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The most important point, IMHO, is that it was not a gay issue. It was a constitutional issue which the liberals tried to spin into gay bashing in order to try to compromise Santorum and perhaps drive him out of the Senate where the Republicans hold a slim lead. We must get over the habit of being cowed by the liberals and their handmaidens in the media (and the trial lawyers). Santorum did an excellent job that will serve him and the Republicans well.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Santorum

[kuma]

I am from Santorum's voter district in PA.

We LOVE him ^_^!!!

Here is a story about a poll conducted in PA of his voters.

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/4020/CWA/family/index.htm

75% of voters did not want Santorum to step down from his #3 position in the Senate. When Republicans take a stand for their voters it can only help. Specter is a louse although I'm frightened his district very much likes his stance.

Anyhoo!

Go Toomey Go!

[Sonny M]

It had absolutley no effect on him, either in the state, or nationally, in fact, what was bizzare was that people who didn't know anything about him, but had preconcieved notions, didn't alter there views either.

The white house played it smart, they knew this story had no legs and wasn't worth even talking about, they made some lame line like "he an inclusive man" and dropped it. They were not going to help the media try and sell papers and draw ratings. Brent Bozelle did a nice time line that showed how pathetic the attempt was to where in the last days, the media was drudging up a polyigamist to comment.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I live in the Pittsburgh area...and from what I read in the local papers, it was much ado about nothing. Santorum pretty much speaks the position of the Catholic Church--and this is a heavily Catholic part of the the country. The great paradox is the old time Catholics (who would most closely follow the Church) vote Dim around here...and the younger, enlightened types (less likely to follow Church dogma) vote R...so it was kind of a nonevent here...Now if we could only get Arlen to retire...