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Originally Posted by Locke
How can you call these guys 'fringe' when they're elected officials? Obviously a significant number of people feel the same way or agree with them, ergo their election.
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Well to be fair he's not elected yet.
And I don't know if you can necessarily say that a significant number of people feel the same way about stoning, even if he was elected the worst you could say is that enough people hated Democrats more than they hated Esk's views on stoning which would never come into play in their minds.
The general bigotry against homosexuals yes I'd agree, though it is improving even among Republicans. Saw a recent poll that had 52% of age 18-50 voters supporting same-sex marriage, and 61% for age 18-29. Over age 50... 27%
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...-sex-marriage/
Numbers for the Tea Party look quite a bit worse (can't find anything recent though), but I wonder what the age demographic for people who call themselves part of the Tea Party is.