IN OBAMA WE TRUST

[William769]

For the first time in decades, The Advocate has a candidate it can endorse for president. That candidate is Barack Obama.

Never has the substantial progress in equal rights and treatment of LGBT people been more at risk than in this presidential contest. This election presents a choice between starkly opposing futures.

Barack Obama is a leader of undeniable accomplishment, vision, and integrity on LGBT rights. His opponent Mitt Romney betrays equality on numerous issues and aligns himself with a faction of the Republican Party that does not include equality among its declared ideals.

The Advocate’s last endorsement was decades ago, but the president’s statement of May 9, unequivocally in favor of marriage equality, along with his record on LGBT rights, has distinguished him for the ages and has made it clear that he is a transformational leader and our best choice for president.

http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2012/07/06/obama-we-trust

I was very critical of President Obama in the last Presidential race (over LGBT issues). I have to say though we have come a long way and I support our President 100% and have even donated money this time around. Since we have been invited to the table and he has our back's, I'll have his.

[mitchtv]

1. none more critical than I,but

that was then, full ahead with Obama now

[DCKit]

2. I'm on board too.nt

[Amimnoch]

3. Me too, I also think he will easily win this election.

For about a year now, my position has been the same as long as no significant primary challenge (which there wasn't), OR there is no 3rd party candidate who will affect the vote in the swing states against him, OR no major economic downturn between now and November this election should be in the bag. It's been over a century since an incumbent president lost an election where at least one of those conditions didn't exist.

I'd trended it out in another thread but just off the top of my head, the most recent incumbents who lost:
George HW Bush - Ross Perot factor.
Jimmy Carter - Strong Primary challenge from Ted Kennedy.
Gerald Ford - Strong primary challenge from Ronald Reagan.
Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression.

The economy is still not great, but it's nowhere near where it would have to be to cause President Obama to lose this election cycle. I, for one, am feeling pretty good about this fall.

It's also not just history, but it's also the states that Mittens will HAVE to pull in the general to win... I don't see it happening.