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To: Metacomet who wrote (150076)	11/14/2010 11:17:46 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 542003

The very concept of a public gay group comprised solely of Republicans is testament to both the power of greed and the ingrained hypocrisy that underlies the GOP. And growing subset, according to CNN's exit polls. Unfortunately, the sample size is small. More gays voting Republican By ANDY BARR Politico 11/5/10 8:59 AM EST Updated: 11/5/10 11:33 AM EST More self-identified gay voters chose the GOP in the midterm elections than in previously recorded totals, according to a CNN exit poll. Thirty-one percent of self-identified gay voters cast their ballots for Republicans on Tuesday, 4 percentage points more than in 2008, according to a similar CNN exit poll. In 2006, 24 percent of gay voters chose the GOP; and in 2004, 23 percent did so. The percentage of gay voters polled, though, represents just a small sample of larger, national surveys. Only 3 percent of the 17,504 voters surveyed by CNN on Tuesday identified themselves as gay. Still, gay Republicans see the numbers as a reason to celebrate. “The gay left would have you believe that gay conservatives don’t exist,” said GOProud Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia. “Now we see that almost a third of self-identified gay voters cast ballots for Republican candidates for Congress in this year’s midterm.” “This should be a wake-up call for the out-of-touch so-called leadership of Gay Inc. in Washington, D.C., which has become little more than a subsidiary of the Democrat Party,” he said in a statement. politico.com