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Immediately after the president’s announcement on same-sex marriage, the money began pouring in to his campaign. Already, gay donors, mostly men, reportedly constitute 1 in 6 of Obama’s top fundraisers known as bundlers. And in the first 90 minutes after the news broke Wednesday, the campaign received $1 million in spontaneous contributions, a Democrat told BuzzFeed. “This is beyond unifying …

Does President Obama’s historic announcement change how you feel about supporting his re-election? If so, what will you now do differently?

So says Richard Mourdock, the Indiana teabagger who just upended six-term GOP Sen. Dick Lugar.

“A major development has just occurred in my race for the U.S. House of Representatives and I’m asking for your immediate help. You see, in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama on the national stage, liberal judges have redrawn the lines of my Minnesota Congressional District to try and wipe me off of the political map once and …

Ain’t gonna happen, but watching them plotz about it is delish.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson won the nomination of the Libertarian Party last week, less than two months after officially ditching the GOP. Speaking on the radio yesterday, Johnson proclaimed himself the strongest candidate on same-sex marriage. “I think I do better than Obama on civil liberties, I think I crush him when it comes to dollars and cents,” …

Two months ago Mitt Romney was the “worst Republican in the country” according to Rick Santorum. Surprising no one, yesterday Romney got his endorsement. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania and a newly minted celebrity among conservatives, said that the one-time rivals would unite to deny President Barack Obama’s re-election. But in a nod that the wounds had not yet …

“Any gay or lesbian person with any self-respect should not be voting for any of the Republicans, including Mitt Romney, who made the degrading comment in one of the recent debates about how he kept Massachusetts from being the Las Vegas of gay marriage, kind of cheapening this very profound thing for us. This is a faker who in 1994, …

Fascist National Front leader and third place finisher Marine Le Pen refused to endorse Sarkozy, leading many to believe that Socialist Francois Hollande, who supports same-sex marriage, will win by five or six points. We’ll know how today’s runoff election turned out very shortly. Meanwhile here’s some raw video of the two finalists making their votes this morning.

“It’s sometimes hard to explain to outsiders what level of principle is required to withstand the personal cost of being an out gay Republican. I’ve only ever been a gay conservative (never a Republican), and back in the 1990s, it was brutal living in the gay world and challenging liberal assumptions. I cannot imagine the social isolation of Grenell in …

Signorile nails it. From HuffPo Gay Voices: Actually, I believe this is a big win for progressives and for gay journalists and commentators as well. We drew out the conservative leaders in addition to Fischer, like Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer and other commentators on National Review and Daily Caller, by bringing forth and continually highlighting the true …

Saying that he was “hounded from the Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives,” the Washington Post reports today that Richard Grenell has resigned. His resignation letter: I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world …

You’ll end up seeing a million different versions of this from many sources, but here’s the first electoral college guess from Huffington Post.

“My Democrat opponent, Tammy Baldwin, just announced a staggering two MILLION dollar quarter here in Wisconsin for her Senate campaign. But that money isn’t just coming from Wisconsin. It’s coming from radical Left Wing groups across America. We Republicans are already fighting the national left here in Wisconsin. But now we’ve got every liberal group looking to promote the far …