The Repubs carried the Gay vote in the midterms-why?
819850
I don't think that's the reason.\nBecause most gays are Democrats.\nAnd most Democrat Politicians are NAMBLA people.
952554
The ignorance in your question actually answers this question... because the lower income Republicans are weak-minded and fall for propaganda easily.\n\nGetting a low income Republican to vote is easy... all you have to do is convince him that the blacks and gays are wanting equal rights and want to live off his hard labor. \n\nThe low income ones are manipulated by prejudices.\n\nExamples, how many times to you hear Republicans on here do you hear comments about democrats living off welfare. Would it surprise you to learn that there are more Republicans on welfare than Democrats? It is because of the increase in job loss of the midwestern states that are all Republican.
803706
um...same reason why Mark Foley touches little boys. The Republicans are doing a nationwide experiment to determine how stupid Americans are. They are doing all these stuff and observe if their party can still win elections.
639041
Southern states there is inbreeding which makes for mental defect, we in the north are working, honest people that know that the Repuglicans are no more moral or upright then the democrats, but the repuglicans favor big business in every legislation, the tax cut for the very rich being an example. The democrats tend to want to help the poor and middle class. Like raising the minimum wages and such.
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I think it is because Gay people have their own preferences just like straight people do....just because someone is gay doesnt mean they have to jump the bandwagon and become a Dem....Im Dem and I wouldnt want them to join the Dem party just because Dems are in support of gay rights and Reps are not......maybe the other issues Reps bring to the table outweighs that one issue of gay rights.....however, I do see where you're coming from though......you'd think they would favor the party that makes things easier for them...go figure
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First off Silly Person, What exactly does it mean that the Republicans are "cheating?" Are you referring to the Diebold Voting Machine debacle, in which early votes are proven as being tallied for Republicans (pretty much sure it's not for the Rublicans but could be wrong), even though the individual voted Democrat? Or are you referring to the lying to to middle-America by Republican-based evangelicals who wish to hasten mankind's Apocalyptic demise and create false demons (such as  unreasonable fears of gays)?  Or are you referring to Our Rev Bush who has created an immoral and dangerously structured partisan divide by labelling his own constituents (yes, all 300,000,000 of us as of last week!) into silos marked as "them" or "us"? \n\nalso when you say "cheating" it isn't exactly all of the republicans that are so called "cheating" apparently its just the maker of that machine thingy
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this is yet another pitiful attempt by the republican party to earn favor with gay men. who reads GQ? a few clueless straight guys and a bunch of homosexuals. this should make you laugh! the republican  party is littered with a bunch of latent homosexuals tiring to curry support after that whole gay marriage thing. \nhave the republicans really dropped so low that they must issue an article of such stupidity? that like the catholic priest stating they don't prefer altar boys!\ni guess that the GOP has new meaning.\nGROSS OLD PERVERTS!!!!!!!!
909584
Seeing as how heterosexuals do not feel the need to announce their sexual orientation before running for office, yes, it makes no difference to me.  Sexual orientation is not a indication of future wrong doing.  Bad character is no more prevalent among gays than straights.
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Becuase many of our lawmakers are right-wing Republicans who believe that gay people aren't moral.  But these are the same men who are cheating on their wives.  I don't know why some people in this country think it is "okay" to write discrimination into the Constituition of the United States.  That erases everything our forefathers stood for.  There was this thing... many years back, called "Separation of Church & State" but yet Politicians seem to forget that.
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Traditionally the Republican party has standed for some great ideals.  They came up as a party that stood for a smaller government with less hands in the everyday lives of people.  They have conservative stances on the many moral issues; anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, etc. \n    In the last five years they have changed that face quite a bit. They are currently fighting for their right to wiretap any person's phone without a warrant or just cause.  They want to fund churches with tax dollars, which sounds nice, but there is a reason church and state are seperated, it is a slippery slope to ending up like a fundamentalist goverment like Afghanistan had in the Taliban.  They also are currently trying to amend the Constitution to deny gay marriage, preaching on the sanctity of marriage, but I haven't heard of any legislation to lower the divorce rate of heterosexual couples, so it's really just a front for the Christian conservatives trying to put the Bible in place of the Constitution.  During the current administration's reign the middle class has gotten poorer and the upper class has gotten more tax breaks.  Also the minimum wage hasn't been raised since Bush took office, but everything has gone up in price considerably.  The average minimum rent for a given city is now more than the monthly take home pay for a person on minimum wage.
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HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON.... above preppypunkboi said he was a gay athiest and he voted for him?\n\nThat's why he won... because people are stupid... Bush would as soon put a bullet in preppypunkboi's head than to piss on him if he were on fire... yet he still voted for him... that hurts my head...\nAnd his exucse is because he has a "back-bone"... I wish he would make Christianity the national religion and ban being gay, and he would if he could, just to show preppypunkboi how stupid he really is...
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The poll percentages represent the people's approval/ disapproval of not only Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld but also of the Republican Party and it's policies.If the polls were more in their favor , it would indicate that the people were comfortable the way things are being run. I believe the Republicans are worried about lossing in areas that they were once a shoe-in and are campaining really hard not only to gain seats but to avoid losing any.
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Hopefully voting the candidate will come back into practice again.\n\nIt used to be the norm and was effective.  There was always fringe members of the party (liberal republicans or blue dog democrats) who could swing enough votes either way to see the best was done.\n\nWith the past 1992 change in power, the GOP went to where it didn't matter how popular a bill was, it needed a "majority of the majority" which later grew into "A clear majority of the majority" to ever reach the floor for a vote - ie - a bill could have the support of over 70 senators and not reach a vote.  Even then an issue was sometimes buried if it was againt the parties platform.  This was accomplised 2 ways -  1. intimidation from the party leadership  2. control of campaign finances from the party leadership.  Because of this, unless the party was in power, it didn't matter what their stances were - if the issue wasn't in line with the main GOP platform, the issue would never come up, so it was important to have your rep part of the controlling party.\n\nHopefully this will come to an end.  The blue dog democrats have a lot of members now and are traditionally not afraid to take on the party leadership, while most of the leadership of the GOP have left or been swept aside.
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Mike was a closet gay (that's true by the way) so I'm guessing Democrat.
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I think there are plenty of legit conservative republicans out there, but I think many people get so worked up about issues like gay marriage and abortion they ignore everything else and vote republican cause they dont like boys kissing.\nElection time they roll out what works for them, hot button social issues that only get attention every 2 years to get their base riled up and out to vote.\n\nOh yeah, this is from rnc.com, their 2004 platform.  I guess they havent rolled out 2006 officially, but I expect it to be almost exactly the same.\nhttp://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf
881940
Yes.  They are TRAITORS to the gay cause and gay Americans.  No self-respecting gay person could ever work or vote for the Republican Party.
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Why when repubs win, they cheer and get happy for their accomplishments, but when the dems win, or lose even, they're bad sports?\n\nAnd to answer you, I'm a conservative dem that is sick of the liberal influence of our party.  You cheer now, but I don't think you'll be cheering next year when things even out.  The new legislature is going to be pretty moderate.