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Originally posted by LMM:
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to prevent bush from taking office.
Would republicans prevent him from taking office?
"I'd vote for a democrat but they don't seem to represent straight white non-union males."
"Hate to break this to you, but gay people are a minority group. In the last election 20% of them voted Repubican. Obama won, not because of his gay supporters, but because "straight", black and white men supported his candidacy. In addition, unions are also a fairly small minority group which have not in the last two elections been able to prevent bush from taking office. It would appear your bias is more your own and has nothing to do with electoral politics. Better watch out - those gays in the Republican party might actually HELP you win in the future."
I don't think you fully understand what I was saying. Neither gays nor unions vote in a solid block (although they do tend to support Democrats by a fairly large margin). My point was, that even if they did vote exclusively Democratic they were unable to sway the last two elections away from bush (even though Gore did win the popular vote). Both groups are minorites, but the point of my remark was that a fairly large percentage of gays AND union members vote Republican.
By saying "prevent bush from taking office" I meant through the electoral process.