Does it matter that Nate Silver--this Presidential election's real superstar--is gay? 

David Badash at The New Civil Rights Movement makes a strong argument for why it may. 

Check it out his piece on the statitician who accurately predicted how ALL FIFTY states would vote in this year's Presidential election (and who's making life sexier for nerds everywhere). 

More after the jump!

Is this the last election in which opposition to same-sex marriage will be a viable campaign stance at the presidential level?

The New York Daily News' David Swerdlick thinks so.

More after the jump.

A Gallup report reveals that the LGBT voting population in the United States could potentially be the deciding factor in who wins the Presidential election.

See their findings after the jump.

Our husband, Zachary Quinto, visited Chelsea Lately this week and spoke so eloquently on the "fundamentally clear" choice that we face in this Presidential election that we just had to post it.

You can look, but don't touch, y'all.

Video after the jump!

The National Organization for Marriage is blatantly employing its notorious "race baiting" strategy in North Carolina ahead of the presidential election. In ad spots purchased on R&B and gospel radio stations in the state, NOM voiceover actor Pastor Patrick Wooden tells North Carolina African-Americans to ditch their vote for Obama due to his "strong endorsement of the homosexual movement." 

Speaking with the Taiwanese press today, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and brother to President George W. Bush and son of President George H.W. Bush, called same-sex marriage a "distraction" in the presidential campaign.

More after the jump.

Game on?

The Obama re-election campaign has a released a new ad titled “Forward,” which highlights the President’s accomplishments and the need to continue moving forward, as there’s still much to do.

Check out the ad after the jump.

France has often been noted as the country of love (you can’t tell, but we said “country of love” with our thickest French accent). Current president Nicolas Sarkozy might agree so long as love remains between a man and a woman. Follow for more on this story of inégalité. That’s inequality in French. We’re so multilingual.

With Newt Gingrich campaigning to defend conservative values and traditional marriage, it seems what he should be defending these days is himself. Today CNN.com released snippets of an ABC News interview airing tonight with Gingrich’s second wife Marianne Gingrich announcing that Newt requested an open marriage. How did this discussion go down?

Whether you are on the fence with Obama or not, he is gearing up full force to win back his presidency in 2012 and pushing hard to win the LGBT community. Details of the multi-million pink dollar campaign donations after the jump.

If you wanted to hear Rachel Lang's own words describing why she bombed Michele Bachmann, follow the jump for a video interview with the glitter activist. Still, the question remains: Did glitter-bombing Bachmann move gay rights forward?)

Rick Santorum (whose widespread history of supporting anti-gay measures has turned his family name into a filthy Internet meme) spoke with CNN's only out anchor Don Lemon over the weekend, and revealed that he not only has gay friends, but "loves" them. Then why is the 2012 GOP presidential hopeful still vocally supporting (as recently as last week) a federal constitutional amendment banning equality for the friends he loves? Video after the jump.