US: State Vot a Global Victory for Gay Rights | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

• GAY VOTE PROVED A BOON FOR OBAMA
• US: STATE VOT A GLOBAL VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS
• LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL VOTERS REMA A SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC BLOC
• THE GREAT GAY ELECTN OF 2012

GAY VOTE PROVED A BOON FOR OBAMA

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTGay Vote Proved a Boon for Lott for The New York TimNov. 15, 2012While Print Obama’s lopsid support among Lato and other mory voters has been a foc of postelectn analysis, the overwhelmg support he received om another growg mographic group — Amerins who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual — has received much ls the backg Mr.

US: STATE VOT A GLOBAL VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS

Obama received om gay voters also has a claim on havg been cisive.

Romney appears to have won a narrow victory among straight voters the swg stat of Oh and Obama’s more than three-to-one edge ex polls among the 5 percent of voters who intified themselv as gay, lbian or bisexual was more than enough to give him the ultimate advantage, acrdg to the study, by Gary J.

The rults are nsistent wh earlier rearch on the number and polil beliefs of gay voters.

LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL VOTERS REMA A SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC BLOC

Democrats have been wng big over Republins among gay voters, Ain-Amerins, Latos, Asian-Amerins and Jews. By parison, whe evangelil voters, who vote overwhelmgly for Republins, make up about one-fourth of the electorate, and their numbers are not growg as wh Latos and Asian-Amerins, the number of voters who say they are gay appears to be growg. 9 percent of Amerins over 65 ll themselv gay, lbian or bisexual, acrdg to the Gallup survey, while 3.

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As Republins plan to reach out to Hispanics and Asian-Amerins, another qutn is whether they would also help themselv by improvg their standg among gay voters. Egan, a profsor of polics and public policy at New York Universy, suggts that gay voters may prove difficult to brg to the Republin tent. Many of them “aren’t swgable bee they have liberal posns on a whole bunch of issu bis gay rights, ” Dr.

THE GREAT GAY ELECTN OF 2012

Egan polls showed that 76 percent of voters who intified as gay supported Mr. Among straight people, each ndidate received 49 percent of the Republin ndidat move to the center on gay rights, they might also risk losg support among cultural nservativ.

Gidley said, the Republin Party’s low levels of support among gay voters n be outweighed by better msagg to other voters, particularly about same-sex marriage. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of the Log Cab Republins, a group that ph for gay rights, referrg to the Republin Party’s small-ernment agenda.

”If the Republin Party do not make roads among gay voters along wh other mory groups, he said, the party risks gog the way of the Whigs or beg a regnal Romney’s loss, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Support Buoyed Obama, as the Straight Vote Spl. (New York) – The succsful ballot iativ on same-sex marriage Mae, Maryland, and Washgton State on November 6, 2012, were major victori for gay rights both the Uned Stat and globally.

“The three state referendums endorsg marriage equaly are groundbreakg bee nowhere else the world has same-sex marriage been won by a popular vote, ” said Boris Dtrich, advocy director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. In Mae, gay rights activists had lost a vote on same-sex marriage 2009, but put the issue on the ballot aga.

Addnally, voters Mnota turned back an effort to rtrict gay rights. Gay, lbian and bisexual voters may make up a relatively small share of the Amerin electorate – jt 5% of voters the 2012 general electn intified as LGB, acrdg to natnal ex polls – but they have long been a eply Democratic nstuency and today are overwhelmgly negative their asssments of Donald Tmp. 10 among 4, 132 adults, cludg 3, 616 registered voters (167 of whom intify as lbian, gay or bisexual).

Note: Data this post are based on self-intifitn as lbian, gay or bisexual.

Throughout the last two s, voter ex polls have nsistently shown that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) voters prise approximately 3-5% of the electorate and overwhelmgly support Democratic ndidat. Ex polls om the 2014 US midterm electn suggt that 4% of the electorate intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual. As the months rolled along, they gladly took the ba, to the pot that the Republin Natnal Commtee affirmed s tentn to ban gay marriage through a feral nstutnal amendment, which Romney pledged to pursue.

And so we have wnsed historic showdowns on LGBT rights the draftg of the Republin Party Platform, and rrpondg lol stggl over billboards agast gay marriage, wh lol rpons phg back.

And w or loose, this is the great gay electn of 2012.

AbstractEx polls om the 2012 printial electn suggt that 5% of the electorate intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

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