2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary needs to stop with her bul**hit about DOMA [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,267 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=indigo]And they did pound Clinton ON EVERYTHING in every ad, and manner possible.
I had teachers telling us about the great Clinton murder conspiracy, endless propaganda about smoking pot and being a communist. Again the people who would have turned so violently on someone over something like that already supported Dole/Perot. The im-"moral majority" and Religious right didn't come into existence in the 90s...it goes back before that.
He also was elected for the first time DESPITE promising to be a pro-lgbtq candidate in 1992. If it was such a loser issue why didn't they kill him then?
And if you think that over 8% of Clinton supporters would have been lost over just DOMA and broken SOLELY for Dole...I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I will sell you. Such a shift over a single issue on undecided voters would be unprecedented in modern american politics.
He might have lost some voters but not enough to lose the election.
But if you have proof that an unprecidented shift in voters over a single issue let us see it as opposed to say "oh you know it true."
Especially on an issue no one was talking about. If the GOP could rally that much support that quickly on one issue Bob Dole would have won that election in a landslide regardless of the vote on DOMA.
Of course it is easy to make up alternative history that supports your position. Let me do it too:
Crystal ball of alternative history based on nothing but my own bias, what would have happened had Clinton vetoed DOMA?[/font]
CBAH: Clinton would have had more votes from not pissing off his LGBTQ supporters.
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=indigo]Thank you Crystal ball.[/font]