It's official! Marriage-Equality will be included in the official Democratic Party platform at the upcoming convention.

I am happy this is actually going to happen. How much of this has to do with whats right and how much with someone has made a decision that the statement won't hurt the swing voters one way or another?

I am happy this is actually going to happen. How much of this has to do with whats right and how much with someone has made a decision that the statement won't hurt the swing voters one way or another?

Probably a bit of both.

Just an unnecessary provocation that hands the Republicans another stick to use as a lever in Va and NC.

Not all social conservatives are Royalists. Some do believe in the common man and middle class. The GOP establishment is the modern day equivalent of the Torys with loyalty to the Crowns of Industry and Wall St. But social conservatives are just that -- socially conservative. They are less likely to bend their social principles than their economic principles. That is what social conservatives do.

It accomplishes nothing beyond some temporary feel-good warmth. Little consolation if we lose the Presidency and Senate.

The situation in NC is not so great. Rah rah for the progressives who can pay close to NYC rents to live in downtown Raleigh or Charlotte (doing my best to re-become one of them!) but the hog and soybean farmers far, far outnumber them in the electorate. (I hold no grudges against hogs nor soybeans, only their cultivators. )

If I had to place money today, I'd say ain't gonna break Barack's way. Cf. Billy Graham (not to mention ol' limb-o'-Satan ((H.P. Lovecraft)) Franklin Graham, Billy's son).