Gay marriage ruling may loom over midterm elections

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge’s decision on Wednesday overturning Proposition 8 — California’s ban on same-sex marriage — has tossed a largely unwanted issue into the middle of the November midterm elections.

The decision, which ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional, has complicated the political tasks before President Obama, whose aides had to explain after the decision that the president supported equal gay rights but opposed marriage rights for gays.

Meanwhile, Republicans said the issue could actually harm Republicans’ chances of winning back one or both houses of Congress this fall. At a meeting of the Republican National Committee in Kansas City, Mo., several party leaders and strategists said it would be a mistake for the midterm election campaign to suddenly become focused on gay marriage, immigration, or other hot-button issues. The only path to winning control of Congress, they said, rested on making an economic argument.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/06/judges_ruling_on_gay_marriage_may_be_tough_to_overturn/

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1. Political calculation may doom the US

When the right choice is clear, you do it.

Otherwise, you're no damned good.

What's the point of this article except to make people think twice before doing what they clearly should do?

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2. The point to take from this article

is that the republican candidates are afraid of raising any issue outside of the economy. Once the republican candidates start giving opinions on "hot-button" issues, they are exposed as extremists.

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3. "they are exposed as extremists"

Let's hope that matters to the voters.