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robzo100 on 10 May 2012
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kaneada said:
robzo100 said:
I think a politician willing to change his stance in the middle of his or her tenure should be looked at as an advantageous trait.

All us young hypocrites keep yelling for politicians to be flexible and then we bash them any time they don't stand up to their principles. We're sending them mixed signals when we do that. I'm sure everyone hates rick santorum for many conservative reasons, but one statement he got booed for when he shouldn't have was when he said "politics is a team sport, sometimes you have to compromise your position."

Not trying to get off topic, but a lot of people are goddamn hypocrites.

Normally I would agree, but most politicians don't come out and change stances while admitting, albiet in a very political way, that they were wrong in their previous beliefs. Obama did not pull a Romney where as he has flip flopped on many arguments and when called on it did not have a good defence for his stance change...

I fail to see how his outting his support for same sex marriage is adventageous at all...if anything he handed a great deal of his voter base to Romney or a 3rd party candidate with that affirmation. He just went from beating Romney by a reasonable margin to having to struggle for re-election. I'm not sure where you are from, but Black communities in the USA are not very friendly toward homosexuality in general and were outraged when Same Sex Marriage was compared to the Civil Rights movements of the 1960's and understandably so. It was enough to swing Prop 8 in California, THE most progressive state in the union.

I am 100% for same sex marriage, but this is a can of worms that poses more harm than good to the Obama - Biden campaign.


Honestly, I never know how this kinds stuff effects the voter demographics.  I mean when less than HALF of the population vote, there is not telling what decisions will tap into the non-voting base, much less change the popsitions of people already in the voter base.  However, I think a good portion of people who don't vote are people who have been disenfranchized by the government.  If you are gay, the government, both democrats and republicans, have repeatedly not taken notice of you so why vote?  Perhaps this taps into liberals who didn't vote before.

Again though, i don't know how one can even begin to estimate this kind of stuff considering the unqie voter turnout.