One in Four Gays Voted for McCain

CNN poll results show that one in four gays voted for McCain, up 20% from 2004.

At first, this might seem surprising. Why would any gay vote Republican? Let alone MORE gays than four years ago? But I think this information tells us a number of things about the LGBT community.

First, both McCain and Obama are against gay marriage, but they do support civil unions. So, from that standpoint they are identical. Second, fewer gays voted for Bush because he is, well, Bush. Third, based on this poll information, gays were about half as likely to vote for McCain as straight people.

As I've said before, being gay cuts across race, gender, and class. With that kind of diversity, it's notable that we vote together as often as we do. This is also, once again, information that can point us to the areas we need to focus on in order to unite our votes even more.