2004 if Bush-Cheney campaign aggressively embraced LGBTQ rights

[Suburbia]

Because Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian, the Bush-Cheney campaign aggressively embraces the LGBTQ movement and prominent gay athletes and celebrities endorse George W. Bush for reelection and the GOP platform embraces gay and lesbian rights.

How does that shift the campaign?

[Agonized-Statism]

Bronz thread, but he loses Ohio at least and then Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, and maybe even Missouri. Federal Marriage Amendment culture war stuff was a big part of the Bush campaign.

[Alben Barkley]

Bronz thread, but he loses Ohio at least and then Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, and maybe even Missouri. Federal Marriage Amendment culture war stuff was a big part of the Bush campaign.

Forget Missouri. He loses Arkansas. I’m not sure exactly what the map would look like but not pretty for Bush. Still enough DINOsaurs in the South in 2004 to make the map look like a 90s Clinton map at least.

[Agonized-Statism]

Still enough DINOsaurs in the South in 2004 to make the map look like a 90s Clinton map at least.

There's plenty other big issues Bush would be to the right of Kerry on- abortion, guns, environment to name a few- that make "90s map" claims far-fetched, but the margins would definitely be uncomfortable. Maybe a landslide happens if the Democrats' candidate is more conservative or Southern or Pat Buchanan runs a Perot-sized third-party campaign in response, but OP didn't specify that.

[NewYorkExpress]

Bush wouldn't have gotten renominated.

[dw93]

Kerry aggressively embraces LGBT rights too and possibly wins the election with enough people in OH and IA voting their pocket books.