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Could 2008 be the year of pro-gay moderates battling for the White House? Some political observers are predicting just such a scenario, as Democratic and Republican centrists surge in early presidential polls. Leading contenders on both sides, such as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), support civil unions and expanding other rights for gay Americans. But none of the leading Democrats or Republicans expected to pursue the White House support full marriage equality for gay couples. Same-sex marriage supporter Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) announced this month that he would not run for president, despite...

Now that Rudy Giuliani is in, his conservative critics are going to go to town on him from abortion to marriage to yes, even judges. Just recently as this weekend, Giuliani said he would appoint judges like Scalia, Alito and Roberts. That's music to the ears of social conservatives. But, less than two years ago, in July of 2005, when he appeared on Fox's Hannity and Colmes he said this about judges: Host Alan Colmes: "Now, Roe versus -- now, you are pro-choice. How important is it to you as a pro-choice Republican to have a pro-choice on the court...

Hillary Rodham Clinton this week told a group of gay contributors to her campaign that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, intended to make it easier for homosexuals to serve in the military, had been a failure, her aides said Wednesday. The first lady, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York, said that if elected she would work to revise what was one of the first programs put in place under President Clinton. Hillary Clinton, speaking Tuesday night at a fund-raiser in Manhattan, said gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, according to...

...for not having "enough zeal to take on the special interests" to combat global warming. Which party's nomination is Giuliani running for?