STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 10 May 2012

[bread_and_roses]

36. Nor am I ... like Cuomo in NY, it doesn't cost him anything for the potential gains

I know the talking heads out there are saying this could cost him swing votes. I don't believe it. Those who care so much about who marries whom tend to have a complex of shibboleths that would never permit them to vote for Obama - on guns, women's reproductive freedom, prayer in school, evolution, environmental dominionism ....etc.

And I cannot believe that the same man who had that revolting minister person give the invocation or whatever it was at his inauguration has not had his number crunchers parse this out to the .0001% on exactly how much it might cost in any possible swing vote vs. how much it might profit in donations.

While few in the GLBT community were ever likely to vote for Robot Romney, they were likely an unenthusiastic and unmotivated constituency whose turn-out, volunteerism, and donations would have been depressed this election.

I am very happy for any and gains in equality for my Sisters and Brothers in the GLBT community. But all credit goes to them - to their activism, courage, persistence.

Obama is just making a purely political calculation.