Bush Anti-Gay Stand Not Resonating With Voters

[Cannikin]

(Miami, Florida) A new survey of voters in Florida, the nation's largest swing state, and one of the most important battlegrounds for control of the White House, shows that voters are not rallying to the President's anti-gay campaign.

Only 2 percent of likely Florida voters named same-sex marriage as an important issue in the election, according to a poll for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Times-Union that was released on Sunday.

Bush, who has made a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage a campaign issue, appears to be losing many of the moderate, independent voters of Florida who could make a decisive difference in a close election.

The poll also showed that John Kerry has taken a slight lead in the state.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/07/072604kerryPoll.htm

[CaTeacher]

1. I'm not usually one to say I told you so---

but "I told you so!!!!"

Running on hate is only going to hurt the gop. We are the party of inclusion--and we need to stress the inclusion of gays at every opportunity. Most people are on OUR side--they just don't realize what is going on (the extent to which the gop hates gays).

[K-W]

7. It used to work for them.

But social progress marches on through even the most difficult times. People can only hate for so long and can only ignore other issues for so long.

[salinen]

2. WTF is wrong with Floridians

God will be sending a second asteroid.

[Beetwasher]

9. Yeah, Jeez, I Know! Doesn't EVERYONE Want To Get On The Bigot Train?

What's wrong w/ these people? Who in their right mind would pass up on the opportunity to institutionalize hatred?

[truthspeaker]

3. As I suspected, he miscalculated that one

Many Americans are uncomfortable with homosexuality if you ask them, but they're not going to go out of their way to express it like Bush hoped they would.

Ha-ha!

[terrya]

4. Good! And if that hateful fuck Santorum speaks at the GOP convention...

It will make it worse for Bush.

[redqueen]

6. Oh I hope they do let Santorum speak! n/t

[terrya]

8. He was scheduled at the last minute.

He'll babble on about the "evils" of gay marriage for the mouth breathing fundementalists on the convention floor. And turn off the sensible thinking people in this country. :-)

[calico1]

10. Oh yes, please...

let Santorum get all apoplectic about homosexuality! Let him rant on and on about it until he is foaming at the mouth. That would be great! The GOP has made a big gamble with this issue. Unfortunately for them, most Moderates are turned off by all this hate talk. Which I why I'd love to have them lay it on thick. The more extreme they get the better. And they have kind of boxed themselves into a corner. The extreme right insists on an extreme right agenda so they have to at this point. Love it!

[terrya]

11. That HAS to be why he's speaking. He's one of Bush's point men..

in the Senate on this. He is a co-sponsor of the anti-gay "Federal Marriage Amendment".

Bush won't say a word on this in his acceptance speech. He'll let Santorum do it.

[donco6]

14. Me too!

Replay of Pat Buchanan.

[SoFlaJet]

5. all this negativity

by the Bushies is not resonating.I go back to what Abe Lincoln said about fooling some of the people...they underestimate the publics' political savvy and knowledge,banking on it's ignorance.they will be given a rude awakening on November 2nd.

[gratuitous]

12. Did everyone get that?

The Republicans are selling hate; nobody's buying. Yes, oppose the sanctimonious babble by the haters, but don't be fooled into thinking that anyone is changing their minds because of it. I'll oppose these repressives where and when I can, but I am comforted by the notion that most folks in the U.S.A. don't give a flying Cheney about gay marriage, and certainly not enough that they're going to amend the Constitution.

Many of you may stop hyperventilating now.

[Cannikin]

13. kick