Gay Support Could Hurt Candidates

Since I have one occasional commentor who blasts me every time I suggest that support for gay rights will hurt a candidate in the general election, you can imagine the chuckles I'm having as I report this story from Politico:

As the Democratic presidential hopefuls gather in Los Angeles for a precedent-setting gay-sponsored and -themed debate, new data show that in the key Electoral College states the endorsement of gay rights groups hurts a candidate much more than it helps.

Quinnipiac University polls of voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- the big three Electoral College swing states -- found voters by large margins more likely to see the endorsement of a gay rights group as a reason to vote against, rather than for, a candidate.

That is especially the case among independent voters -- often the key to winning these critical states -- and much more so among men than women and Republicans than Democrats.

No one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying two of those three states.

Told ya.