As recently as a decade ago, the marriage-equality movement looked like a long, tough slog. Today, about 55 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage; it is now legal in 17 states, seven of those having acted in the past year alone. …
Recently, a very high-level GOP operative confided that he couldn’t think of a national race where he would use the gay-marriage issue against a Democrat. That’s an amazing departure from just 10 years ago, when the issue was used as a powerful political wedge. CONT.
Charlie Cook