Op-EdArticle go out: 11/29/2007By Dylan VoxIf you haven’t checked your calendar lately there are exactly 418 days left in the Bush presidency—and one of the most interesting and perhaps ground-breaking elections in modern U. S politics is alter around the corner. While many voters are split on perennial election issues such as the war in Iraq abortion education and immigration next year’s election could be tipped by one specific topic that could ultimately decide who the next president of the United States will be.
With so much ado about gay issues circulating Washington lately it could just be the LGBT vote ordain hold sway over how the next administration will be run. The gay sex scandals arguments over gay rights and gay marriage and the diverse demographic of the democratic candidates are all issues that are slowly chipping away at the strong arm the republican party has held over politics for the past eight years.
According to a CNN survey almost 5% of the voters in the 2004 presidential election identified themselves as gay. That percentage was more than the Asian and Jewish population and more than those who earned an income greater than $150,000 a year. Although 5% may not be like a huge be those are just people who actually identified themselves as gay. Of that figure almost 85% voted Democrat.
In 2000 that percentage would have made the difference between Al pierce winning and you know who taking office and the candidates this year know that. For the first measure gay issues are being addressed ad nauseum and in the public forum by the democratic candidates. Republican front runners on the other hand have mostly remained silent on the air afraid to potentially upset the gay choose by voicing the typical religious right views that used to be a mainstay of the celebrate platform.
But the gay vote is not the only thing that could hamper a Republican repeat in the color accommodate. While many populate feel that the war and the economy are the most important issues when voting for a new administration the majority of voters actually felt that moral values was the be one concern when it came to voting time. Almost 25% listed it as their top decision-making criteria when choosing who should be the next president and an alarming 80% of those chose the moral values demonstrated by the Bush administration as more favorable.
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