Why Isn't the GOP More Upset About Obama's Move Against DOMA?
What Women Really Think Feb. 25 2011 12:23 PM  Why Isn't the GOP
More Upset About Obama's Move Against DOMA?  It looks as if
President Obama's announcement that the Justice Department will
stop legally defending the Defense of Marriage Act won't
actually be as controversial as anticipated. According to the
New York Times , it "has generated only mild rebukes from the
Republicans hoping to succeed him in 2012, evidence of a
shifting political climate in which social issues are being
crowded out by economic concerns."  Yet that reading is at odds
with the findings from the Pew Study I wrote about yesterday,
which showed that the Tea Party is more socially conservative
than its reputation . A full two-thirds of Republicans say they
oppose gay marriage, and only slightly fewer Tea Partiers hold
that view, too. That's not such a different stat from 2004 ,
when it was a key "wedge issue" that helped get conservative
voters out to vote. (In fact, it's hi