Media polls ignore gay GOP prez candidate

[TomCADem]

Source: Bay Area Reporter

He is one of the few declared candidates running for president, yet gay GOPer Fred Karger is largely missing from the major media polling on the 2012 race.

The majority of polls about the lineup of potential GOP presidential candidates ignore Karger, a southern Californian who is a former Republican political consultant. He is the first out candidate to seek a major party's presidential nomination.

His exclusion from the polls is a sort of Catch-22 for Karger. Not only does it reduce his visibility in the race, it also hinders his ability to take part in the upwards of 18 GOP debates among the candidates over the next year. Several of the debates require candidates to receive at least 1 percent in polling in order to participate.

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The lack of polling led organizers of tonight's (Thursday, May 5) "First in the South" debate, hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party and Fox News, to inform Karger Tuesday that he would not be allowed to take part. Debate participants had to have garnered at least an average of 1 percent in five national polls based on the most recent polling.


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Notably, Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of the conservative gay Republican group GOProud, dismissed Karger as a legitimate candidate.

[Scottybeamer70]

1. Neither Dems or those others

will ever admit that a gay person would actually be a viable candidate for the presidency of
this country. It will never happen! The religious zealots will not allow it. I'm glad he
has the courage to even attempt it. He must be quite a guy.