Friday, January 13, 2012

Being anti-gay doesn't win elections anymore

Dan Savage, the one behind Santorum's "Google problem," has a few things to say about the GOP field. There were four outspoken anti-gay candidates -- Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Santorum. They threw a lot of red meat to their base.

But gay people didn't take the abuse and frequently confronted the candidates. I've heard of many of these confrontations, though I didn't report on them.

The result? Cain is gone. Bachmann is gone. Perry is hanging on by his fingernails (just wait a week). And Santorum is a distant third with half the support of Romney. Real Clear Politics has a cool graph showing the succession of front-runners.

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