Before we parade every conservative out, in favor of gay marriage, I would love to see a voter exit poll that surveys minority democrat voters to see where they stand on the issue. Is it asking too much of our reporters to actually compile a credible survey? I would be interested in hearing how Hispanics, Asians, African Americans, Middle Easterners and others whom generally vote for the democrats feel about the issue. How many are one issue voters?
Although I’m not as noteable as Kathy Potts, I am also a conservative who doesn’t care whom you marry. In fact, let me cast the first vote in a long awaited survey. Thank you.

I appreciate the links, if not to further my point but perhaps it will reflect the columns we read.
Maybe this is an issue we can put in a time capsule, soon.

This is a corrective action done to try to preserve the relevance and viability of the GOP as a national political force. It’s not that the GOP is so out of touch with current society on this one issue: they are out of touch with society on a whole raft of issues, this being just one of them. “Coming around” to a more reasonable/moderate position on the GM issue will inevitably cost the party a certain number of far right-wing adherents (locally manifested as the Grifter Bob faction); however I’m sure that the calculus is that this loss will be much more than offset by the many more who will be attracted to vote for Republican candidates with a less irrationally xenophobic platform than has been recently seen.

As we have seen with the recent Senate activity on immigration reform, the GOP is moving in other areas to slough off problematic voter blocs and move closer to the political center. Whether this marks a true change of heart on the part of the Republican Party or is just a tactic to garner more votes through obfuscaton remains to be seen.

The GOP went through a similar basic-value transformation in the late 1960′s in the wake of southern desegregation: in the space of a decade, the Dems and Reps largely swapped positions on civil rights matters, and consequently the southeastern USA went from being known as the “Solid (Democrat) South” to being a contiguous group of Red States.

Without a sea change like this, the national GOP has little hope of ever winning the Presidency again. This would be a very bad thing, since the GOP is still strong within many states and its inability to be electable at the national level will only lead to ever-greater resentment toward the federal government on the part of its members.

Homosexual marriage is legal in Iowa, Wonder why this is news? A quick perusal of the major media shows nothing about todays report that shows the nations economy has contracted by .1%.
Homosexual marriage
Gabby Giffords congressional testimony on guns (written by her physical therapist) Shes an expert??
illegal aliens being granted amnesty……again
30 million less workers in the labor force than 4 years ago

Enjoy all these very important things as you watch your assets and savings disappear into the economy you voted for. Right now the Dems have only one goal. Destroy the Republican Party,
That the nations and its citizens go down the economic drain while the Dems fixate on politics is just collateral damage. Break millions of nest eggs to make a political omlette