Obama Scrambling For Gay Vote Will Lose Black and Hispanic Vote

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The homosexual agenda has made sure it is a squeaky wheel. Despite the fact that the total number of gay people in America may be as low as 2% of the population, the LGBT agenda has convinced pollsters that it is around one in four Americans that consider themselves homosexual (as evidenced by a recent Gallup poll). A saturation in the media of pro-gay reporting, gay characters and couples being prominently featured on American television programs, and a well funded and politically powerful activist movement has created a perception that is not necessarily true.

Recognizing that votes are going to be harder to come by than originally expected, Barack Obama is reaching out to his base for votes. Among those groups is the gay vote, a group which has felt fairly dissed by Obama over the last three years, claiming they've received little attention by way of freedom from discrimination in the workplace, and that they've received little else aside from the removal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" from the ranks of the United States Military.  So, to encourage the gay vote to return to him, perhaps thanks to a little urging by Biden's remarks a few months ago, Barack Obama has come out in favor of gay marriage.

The political ramifications, however, may not be as rosy as Obama had hoped. Sure, this decision to support gay marriage openly will help with gay voters, and it may return a few of the younger voters that were walking away after Obama lost, in their eyes, that special ability to be a cult of personality. Whether or not enough of those young voters will return to the polls they were willing to pull the lever at in 2008 remains to be seen.

Redefining marriage away from the traditional definition is not the more popular stance at this point. The work of making sure the wheel is squeaky and deserves ample amounts of political grease has earned the homosexual agenda support, and support has been steadily building, but many groups that traditionally vote democrat are also very conservative on the issue of the definition of marriage.

Thirty States have voted to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. Only six States, and the District of Columbia, have passed legislation redefining marriage to include same-sex.  Nine States permit civil unions or domestic partnerships.

In California, during the 2008 Presidential Election, pro-traditional marriage Proposition 8 was on the ballot, and it passed as a result of a large Hispanic and Black voter turnout who also came out to vote for Barack Obama.  Though the minority groups came out with the intention to vote for Obama, the socially conservative Hispanics and Blacks also supported the anti-gay marriage proposition.

By coming out in favor of gay marriage, Obama may actually damage his chances to win reelection. Many Hispanic and Black voters that would have otherwise come out to vote for Obama may stay home because of the change in his stance over governmental involvement in regards to homosexuality.

The move by Obama may also bring out more social conservatives to the polls that prior may have not come out at all to vote because of their perception of Romney as a moderate.

Doubling down on his support of the gay agenda by hosting an LGBT Pride reception, and then vowing to be an advocate, may even deepen Obama's problems with the Hispanic and Black vote, further convincing them that his gay marriage comments were not a fluke, and that though he is an historical President in many ways, his support of the gay agenda, in their opinion, is out of touch with the voters.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Unsatisfied, Gays Demand More From Obama - Washington Examiner

Obama Hosts LGBT Pride Reception, Vows to be Advocate - Yahoo! News

Poll: Americans Massively Overestimate Prevalence of Homosexuality - Free Republic

North Carolina's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Sparks Cheers, Jeers - CNN