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Question: What percentage of the gay vote will Hillary get?
#1
<65
 
#2
65-69
 
#3
70-74
 
#4
75-79
 
#5
80-84
 
#6
85-90
 
#7
>90
 
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Total Voters: 131

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Mallow
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« on: June 28, 2016, 11:22:43 PM »

Right now, low 70's.  This is the one minority group Trump hasn't directly antagonized and has occasionally reached out to, so if he does everything right from here on out, ~67% is possible.

Trump reaching out to us is a form of antagonism.

Yep. We don't like Trump. And we do like Clinton. If my large pool of gay friends from diverse regions across the country is a reasonably representative sample (it may or may not be, I of course acknowledge that this is a personal anecdote), gays as a group are actually more in love with Hillary than any presidential candidate I've seen in a long while. I was even a bit of a pariah amongst some of my gay friends for supporting Sanders over Clinton initially.

80-84%, and it wouldn't absolutely shock me if that's an underestimate.
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Mallow
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2016, 10:11:32 AM »

Right now, low 70's.  This is the one minority group Trump hasn't directly antagonized and has occasionally reached out to, so if he does everything right from here on out, ~67% is possible.

Trump reaching out to us is a form of antagonism.

What do you mean by this exactly?

He means Trump's offensive rhetoric towards other minority groups automatically disqualifies him in our eyes, and pandering to us out of one side of his mouth while denigrating whole classes of humans out of the other only makes him look worse to us.
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Mallow
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2016, 10:25:36 PM »

If you think Trump is going to get the support of more than 25% of us, let alone the 65%+ numbers some are suggesting here, you've got another think coming.
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Mallow
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2016, 07:47:17 PM »

What really gets me is how fooled the gay population is by her because she's got a "D" next to her name.  Outside of anyone pulling the lever next to her name or filling in the bubble for her reps in the Electoral College, she has absolutely no interest in the gay population.  She's an opportunist, and the fact that I read/hear that she's turned the corner on gay rights, etc. is laughable. 

We're not fooled. We understand that, regardless of their personal beliefs, Democratic politicians are by and large beholden to their LGBT-friendly constituencies, and we have a much better chance of achieving the social progress we desire under Democrats than under Republicans. Especially from a Supreme Court perspective.

But you keep that belittling attitude up. It speaks volumes.
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