Thursday, October 25, 2012

Gay Marriage

Recently, my older sister, who is now in college, told me about her experience watching the Presidential Debates with her friends.  She has a lot of gay friends that are all for gay marriage, so whenever Romney would mention non-gay marriage opinions, whether in the debates or not, things would go crazy.  None of them are planning on voting for Romney now solely based on his opinions of gay marriage and how marriage should just be defined as between a man and a woman.  This just stuck out at me because of how one differing viewpoint can have a large affect on other people -- especially if that subject really means something to them personally.  Also, They made fun of him during the debates for saying that he wanted to hire more woman and that he had a whole binder full of women

A lot of young people support Obama -- this may be in part because even though they're old enough to vote, like my sister who is 22, they aren't really affected by Obama's policies because she's still being supported by her parents.  She's not worried about ObamaCare because all she knows is that she has health insurance.  Even though she says she supports Obama, she mentioned that she might not even vote.

1 comment:

  1. This is a great post, but I would have liked you to engage your readers a little more, to be part of the conversation. Why are more young people, in your view, supporting Obama? What issues are so important to you that they would shape who you vote for?

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