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| Barack Obama places big bet on gay |
| Barack Obama places big bet on gay marriage issue
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-May-2012
5:23:33 AM |
| President Barack Obama called his decision to support same-sex marriage the result of a personal evolution but it also appears to have been a calculated political choice made with an eye on the November 6 election.
In becoming the first US president to publicly support gay marriage, polling analysts said Thursday, Obama essentially is betting that his decision will generate enough enthusiasm among young people to offset any votes he will lose from moderate and conservative whites who disagree with him.
A key part of Obama's calculus, analysts said, also will be to hold on to the enormous majority he enjoys among black voters. Church-going blacks are divided over gay marriage but pollsters say they are unlikely to vote for Republican Mitt Romney over Obama, the nation's first black president, in November.
"From a strategic vantage point, Obama is making a good decision here because this is the direction the country is going," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson. "Support for gay marriage has gone from the low teens to a near or outright majority of the country supporting it over the course of the last couple decades."
Obama, who before Wednesday's declaration had said he supported civil unions of same-sex couples but not legalized marriages, was under increasing pressure from within the Democratic Party to take a firmer stance on the issue, which analysts say is particularly important to voters under age 35, a voting bloc that helped lead Obama to the White House in 2008.
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