seemingly picked up the steam that he has as a live candidate. i think he has done that. he is struggling with african-american voters. do you think it is around a set of policies? do you think it is around name id or do you think it is around what you just described? i think it is all of the above. i think a lot of it is name id, they don t know him, they don t have experiences with him. but i would be lying if i didn t say there was some in parts of this country, in the black community that are still homophobic, which is why i wanted to take the position i did, and i think everyone should. you have to remember when president obama came out with same sex marriage there was a lot of push back. in 2003 when i was getting ready to run and said i was for same sex marriage, i had ministers that i grew up preaching who said, you can t come to my church for a while until this cools off. so let s not be in any way dishonest about this. we have in every community to have to deal with it, a