Since his very public endorsement of same-sex marriage on May 9, President Obama has become the unabashed hero of the LGBT community – a fact the liberal media has openly cheered. On Thursday's NBC Today, White House correspondent Kristen Welker described Obama being "greeted by thundering and sustained applause" at a Hollywood fundraiser Wednesday night. Welker proclaimed that gay community had been, "newly energized after the President's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage." On CBS's This Morning, correspondent Bill Plante highlighted President Obama's "warm welcome from campaign donors in the Los Angeles gay community" at the LGBT Leadership Council Gala. Meanwhile, The Washington Post could barely contain its glee over the event: ".the president had to plead with the audience to sit down after a long and emotional ovation and chants of 'Four more years!' Twin screens on each side of the stage displayed huge
The Importance of Electoral Politics in Social Change Movements
Mandy Carter
By Mandy Carter–
I wonder how many of us could ever have thought that we would have our first-ever woman, and woman of color, as our vice-president? I sure didn’t at first.
That was until I remembered having had the good fortune of working on the historic election of our first-ever Black president, Barack Obama, in his 2008 presidential election campaign.
As an out Black lesbian and lifelong Democrat, I count myself fortunate to have worked on two winning historic campaigns that proactively engaged our LGBTQ+ communities. In 2008, soon-to-be President Obama formed Obama Pride with five national co-chairs for his national LGBT leadership team. They included myself of Durham, NC; Marsha Botzer of Seattle, WA; Jesse Garcia of Dallas, TX; Campbell Spencer of Washington, DC; and Eric Stern of Berkeley, CA.
one-third of loyals. you can see there. also what some may not expect. 64% of obama fans are casual. look at that bottom right-hand corner fans who never comment or like. the top groups as we dug into this a little more following the president on social media, african-americans for obama. obama pride. a national lgbt group and latinos for obama, dropping satisfaction for the president as of late. as for romney. to the groups following him on social media, well-funded conservative group american crossroads. cpac, and the national republican congressional committee well funded in that list. finally, for the social media leader board for the gop field, mitt romney leads, can you see here by a fact perp look at number two. a factor of two with 1 million facebook fans. ron paul right behind and after that michele bachmann. her numbers still good.