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May 15, 2012
When US President Barack Obama declared his official support for same-sex marriage on May 9, the Twitterverse went into overdrive. Social media analysts reported that Twitter saw 1.6 million #gaymarriage tweets immediately after Obama’s announcement, with similar coverage from other media in TV, radio, websites and newspapers.
So, people are talking. But what does Obama’s declaration mean for the likelihood of him being a two-term president? And what does it mean for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party? U of T Scarborough political scientist Professor Christopher Cochrane, an expert in analyzing the left-right debate in politics, offers his take.