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"FacebookPinterest\n\nRepublican lawmakers really, really don't want to talk about the gay marriage thing: \"GOP leaders on gay marriage: Sound of silence\" by Carrie Budoff Brown and Seung Min Kim, Politico\n\nPresident Barack Obama's embrace of same-sex marriage was viewed for so long as such a risky move that operatives in both parties expected it to drop like a bomb, handing Republicans a powerful wedge issue in an election year.\nInstead, it's landed like a feather.Top Republican officeholders went out of their way Thursday to try to shift the conversation back to the economy. The GOP's House and Senate campaign committees practically ignored it. And prominent Republican strategists are warning the party to steer clear of it.\n\nBehind the Robin Roberts scoop: \"Sources: Robin Roberts Feared Obama Interview Would Out Her as a Lesbian\"\n\nLast night, Politico published a breakdown of how ABC's Robin Roberts scored the President Obama gay marriage interview yesterday and, through several producers and media analysts, offered up these non-media-related credentials: Black. Christian. 50-year-old. Sports fan. Female.\nThe only part the report omitted was the near-open secret that Roberts is a lesbian. A source close to ABC ecutives told us that although the interview is, at this point, the biggest of her professional career, Roberts wasn't overly enthusiastic about the scoop because she thought it would bring her own sexuality to the forefront.&amp;gt;\n\n \"Most of the discussions [among TV people] today about why Robin got the interview have to do with her being gay,\" a source told Gawker. \"Not that she's black, or friends of the Obamas.\"\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012:\n\nOn Prep Schools, Boys, and Fitting In...\n\nMisadventures in Campaign Reporting Without Context\n\n[What Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Perry Taught Me About Sex (and Settling Down)\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race#ixzz1uaXcNYX0)\n\nThings Joe Biden Should Never Apologize For\n\nFollow GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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