Paul Waldman says the electorate is increasingly pro-marriage equality. So who’s in trouble? Democratic politicians who tried to straddle the issue:
When your average Democratic politician is trying to explain his position on this issue, you can usually see the discomfort in his face. The assumption I’ve always made (and I’m sure most conservatives agree) is that the politician actually believes in marriage equality but is afraid of the political consequences. So he talks about how he believes we’re all equal, except in marriage, and hopes no one will ask him exactly why gay people aren’t quite equal enough to give their unions the same status as those of straight people. If someone does, he rambles about tradition and his upbringing and religion, and can’t quite come up with a rational reason why he believes what he does.