Is there a "McGovern effect" influencing the Democratic primary?

[Chitown Kev]

25. One factor that you miss with Dukakis

was the LGBT vote...there are no definitive numbers on what the LGBT vote was in 1988 but the estimates that I've read (in Virtual Equality by Urvashi Vaid) were that Bush 41 may have won as much as 40% of the LGBT vote. Here's why.

An attempt by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to mend troubled relations with the gay community was met Saturday with occasional hisses and boos at a public meeting that turned into a critique of the candidate's gay rights positions.

Dukakis stuck tenaciously to his views during the tense half-hour session, finally defending the Massachusetts policy that gives homosexual couples less chance to become foster parents than heterosexuals by declaring: "There is no civil right to be a foster parent."

Many in the crowd at Los Angeles' Four Seasons Hotel then hissed with displeasure, and some responded with applause when a heckler called the presidential candidate a "bigot" and "anti-gay."

The audience also appeared dismayed by Dukakis' declaration that he would not issue an executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual preference if he were elected President. Dukakis contended that such discrimination already is barred by the Constitution.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-15/news/mn-4425_1_gay-community

Obama gets from 70% to 77% of the LGBT vote in his 2 elections.