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- Obama radio ad touts LGBT equality
The closing days of the 2012 presidential campaign have featured high-profile TV ads aimed at undecided voters, but both candidates have also approved less conventional radio ads that target specific demographic audiences in key regions. The campaign of President Barack Obama is airing one radio ad aimed at young women urging them to vote to support their gay friends. "What are you going to tell them? You were just too busy? You didn’t think it mattered? Is that what you’re going to tell your friends who can’t get married? The ones who couldn’t serve openly in the military?" the ad’s narrator asks. Politico (Washington, D.C.)
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Bloomberg cites Obama’s marriage stance in endorsement: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an Independent, this week announced his endorsement of President Barack Obama, citing the president's support for marriage equality. “The two parties’ nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America. ... One recognizes marriage equality as consistent with America's march of freedom; one does not. I want our president to be on the right side of history,” Bloomberg said. Metro Weekly (Washington, D.C.)
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- Anti-gay texts urge votes against Obama
The Human Rights Campaign has asked the Federal Communications
Commission to investigate and punish those responsible for sending
cell phone text messages containing anti-gay political ads aimed at
denying President Barack Obama a second term. The mass unsolicited
messages, tied to a Virginia advertising firm, are illegal under the
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, HRC contends. BuzzFeed
(10/31), The Hill/Hillicon Valley blog
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- National exit polls won't survey trans vote
The polling firm that produces exit poll data for national media outlets will continue to ask voters this year if they identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, but it will not ask if voters identify as transgender. "We’ve tried to keep that wording as consistent as
possible across elections and that’s the way it’s been asked in the last decade at
least,” said Joe Lenski, executive vice president of Edison Research. The exit poll effort in 2008 helped determine that 27% of self-identified LGBT voters chose John McCain over Barack Obama. Washington Blade (Washington, D.C.)
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Most national polls show a dead heat in the race for president of the
U.S. Regardless of your personal preference, who do you think will be
elected?
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Barack Obama |
83.58%
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I have no idea. |
10.74%
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Mitt Romney |
5.68%
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- 14 Obama staffers among “Out 100”
OUT magazine’s new “Out 100” list honors 14 openly LGBT presidential appointees, including: Shin Inouye, director of Specialty Media in the White House Office of Communications; Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president, Export-Import Bank of the United States; and Ana M. Ma, chief of staff, U.S. Department of Labor. Out
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Early leads for marriage equality supporters are evaporating as campaigns come down to the wire in Washington state, Maryland and Minnesota, according to this article. Anti-gay groups are contributing millions to fund last-minute ads warning that marriage rights for same-sex couples will affect businesses, churches and schools. Meanwhile, actor Brad Pitt announced he has donated $100,000 to the Human Rights Campaign’s marriage efforts. 
