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Originally posted by Gattigap
I vaguely recall Mary Cheney being pretty out front in the 2000 campaign, presumably in order to trigger the mass exodus of Gays for Bush vote.
Given subsequent events and the lack of enthusiasm for an administration with policies so hostile to the gay community, I am not entirely surprised that she has been less vocal this time 'round.
Beyond the senselessness of this argument generally, though, I am surprised to see the implicit presumption here that she's somehow immune to mention this year, when she was an emblem for BC'00 last time.
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I saw a
documentary on getting out the vote recently, and there was a segment on the gay vote. I was shocked to hear that in 2000, Bush got a million gay people to vote for him (confirmation at
http://www.logcabincolumbus.org/VOTE%20ANALYSIS.htm). I imagine that Mary Cheney's participation, though fairly low key, was a factor there. I'm pretty sure that this time around, Bush can't count on those votes. I imagine most of them are in urban areas in non-swing states, but Bush has lost the Log Cabin Republican endorsement (and there was a segment in the documentary of a group of Log Cabin Republicans in Colorado who said they weren't going to vote for him).
I'm also reminded that Ann Richards lost the governorship in 1994 partially due to a nasty whisper campaign in East Texas suggesting that she was gay friendly at best and a closet lesbian at worst.
