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Title: Gay-friendly states influence presidential race
Post by: LostInTime on June 11, 2007, 12:22:20 PM
Detnews dot com (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070611/OPINION03/706110304/1008/OPINION01)
Deb Price

At the recent Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer started a question about rights for gay couples by noting that the state's governor had just a few days earlier signed civil unions into law.

At the mention of the new milestone, the New Hampshire audience clapped wildly, so much so that clock-minder Blitzer felt compelled to shush them by saying, "Let's try to keep the applause down."