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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid the LGBT community give Obama his margin of victory?
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/presidentIf you look at the exit polls they say that LGBT (LGB to be more precise since they don't ask T) made up 5% of the electorate and split 76% for Obama and 22% for Romney. That means that his margin among gays is 5% of (76% - 22%) which is .05(.54) which is .027 or 2.7% of the total electorate. Exit polls showed the candidates tied among non LGBT voters at 49% each.
Now if you look at the popular vote as shown at CNN is 60,913,692 for Obama with 57,974,374 for Romney. Leaving out the 3rd party votes increases the percent of Obama's margin. Obama's vote margin is 2,939,318 out of 118,888,066 or a bit under 2.5%.
Now a bunch of caveats have to be said here. One is that not all the votes are in yet so his margin may grow. Two, there is a fairly decent margin of error involved with the exit polls. The MOE is plus or minus 4% for the whole sample so it is around 18% for LGBT population unless they took care to interview more of them than 1/20 of the sample size. But the 76% makes pretty good sense and is quite probably a correct number.
The fact is we will never know for sure but if the LGBT community did provide the margin he earned it.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)worked together. They only have the white majority. (BTW I am white).
Gman
(24,780 posts)who chose to vote their conscience.
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)It took every last living one of us to make this happen. Our belief in our President is what unites us and what brings us victory.
I will celebrate with all my brothers and sisters.
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)I also got my non-political partner to vote, so that's +2.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)LGBT, women, young people, latinos, African-Americans, seniors, even some white males. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and atheists. Even independents, liberals and third party voters helped. We, America, gave him his victory.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)I agree with the general tone of your OP, that the GLBT vote really matters, but am just noting that all GLBT people are also in a race category and a gender category, so there is some double counting.
Black lesbians ruled the vote!
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)Now I know better.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)but it took a village, and that is us! Pres. Obama knows and acknowledges this.
We are stronger when we stand together, period.
argiel1234
(390 posts)no LGBT member would ever vote for romney, at least sane rational members.
That said the LGBT community is part of the Democratic Party and their rights are my rights.
Economic and social equality for ALL