NH-Gov: Base vs. General on Marriage Equality

by: Dean Barker

Tue May 25, 2010 at 06:00:28 AM EDT

Lynch up. (4.00 / 2)

Biggest applause of the film for Lynch is for marriage equality.
Marriage equality is by far the biggest base rouser today.

More Lynch (4.00 / 1)

"rolling back progress" is what the other team wants to do.
He's talked an awful lot about the out-of-state ads targeted him.

Again, biggest applause by far is over protecting marriage equality.

It was great to see Jeanne Shaheen, John Lynch, and Paul Hodes all mention marriage equality -- and the loud applause they earned by doing so.  If there was ever a thought that passage of House Bill 436 would be detrimental to Democrats in November, 2010, I think we're seeing that fear dismissed day by day.

vs.

What I remember being asked about the issue of marriage equality on the phone during the highly detailed, 20+ minute Lynch message testing poll I endured last night:

Oh, well.

Adding: To be clear, none of this will make me any less enthusiastic about voting for Lynch in the fall.  He can have a statue built for himself in honor of marriage equality, or he can run away from it.  I only care that he signed the bill into law, when he didn't need to, politically speaking.  And for that he has my full support.