Barack Obama has widened his lead over Mitt Romeny among LGBT voters in the 2012 Presidential election according to results of an October survey just released by the Logo network. The survey, which was conducted with pollster Harris Interactive, shows Obama with 72 percent of the LGBT vote compared with 20 percent for Romney.
Obama’s lead widened from that in a similar Logo survey in August, which showed Obama with 65 percent of the LGBT vote versus 21 percent for Romney. The survey showed Romney leading Obama among voters of all kinds, with 43 percent of the vote for him versus 41 percent for Obama. That was a major downward shift for Obama, who in an August Logo poll bested Romney by 44 percent to 39 percent.
The poll by Logo, Viacom’s gay-oriented cable television channel, found significant support among the general population for any candidate who supported important gay issues. Fifty-one percent of those polled said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who supported laws to define and prevent bullying of LGBT students and laws to prevent LGBT workplace discrimination, versus 11 and 10 percent, respectively, who were less likely to back a candidate who took such a stance. Forty-two percent were more likely to vote for a candidate who continued to permit open service by gays in the military, versus 11 percent who said they were less likely. Thirty-three percent were more likely to support a candidate who supported legal recogntion of gay marriage, versus 28 percent who were less likely. And 32 percent supported a candidate who backed gay adoptions, compared with 20 percent who were less likely to support such a candidate.
