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Same-sex marriage issue on back burner (Politico)

 
Politico - Same-sex marriage, a hot issue in the 2004 campaign, has been but a blip on the national political scene in 2008 despite a new round of state ballot measures to ban it. The country’s economic woes have eclipsed social issues among voters, and neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has tended to raise such charged social issues. (link)

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