Yesterday on my 3AW program I said I thought President Obama was brave for announcing in an election year that he supported gay marriage. That prompted an angry email from an American listener who argued that it wasn’t ‘gutsy’. That Obama had merely ‘flip-flopped’ for his political benefit with a re-election campaign underway.
I can’t agree. Obama will pick up some younger votes but in some marginal states, especially southern and mid-west states, that he only won by tiny margins in 2008, he’ll lose votes.