Last November, I spent most of election night watching coverage on FOX. It was the best damn TV in ages. When the other news channels had declared Obama the victor, Carl Rove and others refused to admit defeat. Before the election, they forgot vigorously against the number crunchers, who predicts that outcome. In the days after the election, conservative pundits admitted that they trusted the wrong number crunchers and wondered how their party would recast itself to win national elections. Their honesty was remarkable.
With the public opinion polling showing HUGE support for gay marriage, conservative pundits are continuing their soul searching. Even Rush Limbaugh is questioning whether or not it makes political sense to continue their hardline opposition to same sex marriage.
Limbaugh added that the political ramifications of same-sex marriage are still unknown, especially for the Republican Party: "I mean, the Republican Party, for example, could be looking at its ultimate demise here, depending on how it deals with this. Because they do have multiple millions of voters who are evangelical Christians who on religious grounds alone don't support homosexual marriage and are not going to support a political party that does. So then the Republicans in that circumstance would be faced, if you were to lose multiple millions of voters over this, they are going to have to replace them somewhere. How do they do it? Do they try to siphon off most of the gay vote that's going to the Democrats?"