Been posting here on Swampland on matters military for several months now. But it’s time now to march on over to Battleland, a military-related blog we’re setting up here in the Time web empire. So this is goodbye, at least in the sense that the Swamp will no longer be my normal base of operations. This blogging business comes with certain pluses and minuses. Speed and agility — hey, sounds like that Army briefing I’ve been hearing since 1979 — are paramount. You also post without going through a flotilla of editors. That can be a good or bad thing, depending on how egregious the error you let slip by is. The quick, loving — and pungent — responses from commenters is also something new. Some days you feel like a kid at camp writing letters home to parents who hate you. In any event, thanks to all you Swamplanders for helping create such a community, and allowing me to sit in for awhile.
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Obama’s Persuasive Powers on Gay Marriage Manifest in Maryland
When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal “evolution” a case of a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty number two), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like black churchgoers? Sure, there was a recognition that it marked a gratifying moment for gay marriage advocates—as well as some grumbling about the President’s view that it remains a state issue, not a federal one. But by and large, there were few suggestions that one man, even the President, would shift public opinion on the issue or affect public policy. Based on a new Public Policy Polling survey out of Maryland, it seems this possibility was underestimated.
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