Here’s a bit of interesting news via Miami New Times:
Barack Obama might have gay voters to thank for his reelection, especially right here in Florida. A new analysis suggests that if only straight people went to the polls here, Romney would have pulled off a win by something like two percentage points.
“Similarly, analysis of preliminary returns from Florida show that the 420,000 total LGBT votes cast in the state may be a deciding factor in President Obama’s projected lead in Florida,” reads a new analysis by the Williams Institue. “Though final results aren’t yet known, an estimated 300,000 LGBT Floridians voted for the president — a margin many times larger than the current vote difference between the two candidates.”
Nationally, 76 percent of self-identified LGBT voters voted for the President. Only 22 percent voted for Romney.
In Florida, Obama got 73 percent of the LGBT vote. 26 percent voted from Romney.
It’s a little more than ironic that while the LGBT community may not have all the rights we’re entitled to as citizens — marriage, inheritance, survivors benefits — we still have the one that matters on Election Day. And we used it well.
Heck, yeah, I am sure that LGBT voters went for Obama, and I am sure they contributed to his victory. There are many groups that just were not buying what Romney was selling. Romney-Ryan represented the past, and Obama the future. Many of us wanted to go into the future and not stay return to the 1950s.
I’d like to understand people who would identify as LBGT and still vote for Romney?
Oh, that’ll be the next area of vote suppression. Prove you’re heterosexual or you can’t vote.
On the issue of why a LGBT person would vote for Romney: because they’re rich. Or at least, that is my working theory. It certainly works for abortion. Your daughter’s pregnant? Send her to Paris for a couple of weeks! These laws only control the poor. Marriage equality is harder, but if you are rich you can live in a more enlightened country while your passive income is lightly taxed here in Medieval America, great!