willy to bring over voters. in a national election, in a presidential election where the whole country is engaged in voting, i get what he s saying. a battle for senate control, this is a battle about north carolina, this is kentucky, will you will you, alaska, these are states that are a lot more conservative and a lot more anti-obama than america it s a different world, steve. as a token southerner at the table, when we lack at these aggregate numbers we get hopeful, i m going to turn out and vote, or maybe i ll switch my vote from r to d but it s not going to happen. southerners have no problem separating out the two. i m getting my health care or other government benefits, but i still hate obama. i still hate the government. i am going to keep on voting republican whether for cultural reasons, moral reasons, religious reasons. we need to be clear about that and not be optimistic that health care will switch people
very anti-gay policies on the books. i think it s going to be huge for the economic condition of lgbt families in that region. families who are already in some way accessing social service programs, families that are being discriminated against at work because employment protections are not taking hold in the south as rapidly as we d like to see s even though marriage equality attitudes might be changing. people there can still be fired from their jobs simply because they re gay. having marriage equality is a good barometer. the truth s there s still a lot of work we have to do. as you mentioned earlier, these changes that we re seeing are going to happen through the courts. don t think that the legislatures overnight are going to start passing pro-gay laws. yes, mississippi, hello. as the token southerner at the table here, we have to be very cautious about how public opinion translates into the electorate. we saw here that we saw a doubling of the support for gay marriage, but th