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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

I think you may be right about the attempt to keep the gay marriage 
issue in the minds of the voters but I don't think Edwards has nearly 
enough local support to actually make this a swing state.  At best, 
Edwards will force Bush to spend more time in the southern states 
pulling his time and money away from the mid-west swing states.  I 
think Edwards was a bad choice and Gephardt would have been a better 
running mate (pulling in more of those swing states)

Actually if I were a Democrat Lieberman would have been my idealistic 
choice (although he isn't very electable).

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> Let's play "find the real reason for this march!"
> 
> Most of those who really pay attention to politics know that the whole
> gay marriage thing is being pushed more to drive far-right-wing voter
> turnout in November than because the Guys In Power actually think of
> marryin' queers as a Legitimate Threat.
> 
> The Right has seen their attempt at getting a Constitutional Amendment
> vote onto the November ballot in North Carolina quashed at the
> legislative level.  It's become a dead issue, no play.
> 
> Therefore, they are attempting to find any way they possibly can to 
keep
> the whole "gay thing" in the papers and in people's mindspace, right 
up
> until the election.  More mindspace and airtime given to Those Damn
> Homos will necessarily mean less mindspace and airtime given to real
> issues, like the complete collapse of North Carolina's textiles
> industry, or the Iraq boondoggle, or etc etc.
> 
> Anyone think this might be because, with Edwards, NC is actually a 
swing
> state now?
> 
> Paula,
> seeking job as lobbyist, analyst, or talking head (either kind).
> 
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