Our President just endorsed same-sex marriage!

[davidpdx]

17. I'm glad he did this

But I think he should have done it six months ago before the election cycle got into full swing. Two things that this may (I'm not saying they will, it remains to be seen what will happen) occur is:

1) He opens himself up to charges of the announcement being an election year gimmick. Personally I don't think it is, I think he is sincere. However independent votes will be more important this time around in order to get him reelected.

2) One of the big issues Obama has been hitting Romney on is flip-flopping which is very true. To Obama's defense he has always said his position on gay marriage is evolving which indicated eventually he'd come around and support it (we all knew that, well maybe not all there were a lot of people on here who doubt it). The question is will Romney try to turn it around and use the flip flop issue on Obama?

Again, I'm saying these things will happen, but could. I think over the next few weeks we'll see what the reaction is (and yes I am looking at this from primarily a political standpoint since this is an election year). My guess would be by the beginning of June the polls will have absorbed any change up or down and that will tell us what the effect was.