http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/04/iowa-caucuses-end-with-santorum-romney-in-virtual-tie/ the gay community's news source Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:16:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/04/iowa-caucuses-end-with-santorum-romney-in-virtual-tie/#comment-41483 Craig Howell Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:26:35 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=33500#comment-41483 For some amusing perspectives on the underlying silliness of the Iowa caucus results, check out Mike DeBonis’ blog on the Post’s web site. Among other things, he observes that Tommy Wells got more votes in 2010 from Ward 6 Dems than Rick Perry got yesterday from Iowa Reps. [URL removed]

]]> http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/04/iowa-caucuses-end-with-santorum-romney-in-virtual-tie/#comment-41476 Fausto Fernandez Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:28:14 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=33500#comment-41476 What we should take away from this election is that almost 50% of the caucus goers in Iowa were NOT driven by homophobia. Homophobia-driven Iowa Republicans would not choose to vote for Romney–who is perceived by the fundies as “soft” on LGBT–or for Ron Paul, who is definitely positive in LGBT rights, from a libertarian position.

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