The link worked but it took some time.
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/black_homophobia"Finally, I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8."
The answer to savages question above:
http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2472Gay support for Obama in the primaries
Time will tell but the Bay Area Reporter has some preliminary reports:
Elections officials did not return a reporter’s calls for data from Manhattan’s or West Hollywood’s heavily gay voting sites. Officials in San Francisco said precinct-level data – even very preliminary data – will not
be available for several days. Results from those areas could very well change the picture overall concerning LGBT voting trends.
But where details could be found, voters in Boston’s five heavily gay precincts voted for Obama by a margin of 56 percent to Clinton s 44 percent. That support was slightly stronger than found in Boston voters overall who preferred Obama by a slightly weaker percentage – 53 percent to Clinton’s 45 percent.
In Northampton, Massachusetts, which is known to have a heavily lesbian population, 60 percent of voters supported Obama, compared to 40 percent for Clinton.
The exception in Massachusetts was in the resort town of Provincetown. There, 54 percent of voters supported Clinton, compared to 46 percent for Obama.
In San Francisco, unofficial results for the city give Obama the edge – with 52 percent of the vote, compared to Clinton’s 44 percent.
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http://www.windycitytimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=19735Data available thus far on voting in heavily gay precincts suggest the gay vote for Obama was at an unprecedented high. In the last several presidential elections, the percentage of LGB voters supporting the Democrat has hovered around 70 to 75 percent. But Election Day voting was much stronger:
—In heavily gay Provincetown, Mass., 87 percent of voters supported Obama, compared to only 11 percent for McCain, and 2 percent for others or no votes. Massachusetts overall voted 62 percent for Obama, and 36 percent for McCain.
—While 61 percent of Californians supported Obama over 37 percent for McCain, 85 percent of heavily gay San Francisco supported Obama—versus 13 percent for McCain and two percent for others.
—Fifty-five percent of voters in Pennsylvania supported Obama over 45 percent for McCain, but in Philadelphia's heavily gay 2nd and 5th wards, 83 percent of voters supported Obama.
—In heavily gay Dupont Circle ( Precinct 15 ) in Washington, D.C., Obama won 89 percent of the vote.
—In the heavily gay precinct 1233 in Dallas, 63 percent of voters supported Obama, while 57 percent of the entire city did so. Fifty-five percent of the state supported McCain.
—Chicago's heavily gay 44th Ward went 86 percent for Obama over 13 percent for McCain.
A Harris poll online survey conducted Oct. 20-27 with 231 self-identified LGBT “likely voters” predicted 81 percent of LGBT voters favored Obama while 16 percent favored McCain. A similar poll in August had shown 68 percent favored Obama, with 10 percent leaning toward McCain.
Patrick Sammon—president of Log Cabin Republicans, a national gay Republican group—said he puts more trust in data from the overall exit poll data nationally, which said once again that 4 percent of voters were GLB and that 70 percent voted for Obama and 27 percent for McCain, with 3 percent for others.
“LGBT voters don't live in just Dupont Circle and Chelsea,” said Sammon in a telephone interview Nov. 5.
But U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said both sets of data may be right. The results from precincts that are heavily gay, she said, reflect a demographic that has significant access to information about each candidate's stand on LGBT issues, while the national exit poll is capturing LGB voters in places that may not have that kind of information at the ready. And in those places, she said, LGBT people are “making their minds up on a larger array of issues.”
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Edited for coding error and extra article about religious right.