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Originally Posted by Derwood
I also think he's falling short on the gay marriage issue. People like to call him the most liberal senator on the planet, but he still doesn't support gay marriage (just civil unions, which I don't think is going far enough in terms of civil rights).
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I won't swear to this, since I don't have any hard evidence of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is an election tactic as opposed to how he actually feels about the issue. I think he'd risk losing some of the moderate conservative vote he's trying to swing if he came out fighting for gay marriage. I think gay rights are something we'd be likely to see improve under Obama after he establishes himself, but it'd be a very dangerous campaign platform point to make in a national election.