Obama, Romney don’t bite on Chick-fil-A

Obama’s reelection prospects are bound up in the hope that he can convince people he actually is digging the country out of a hole, which means keeping the attention on those efforts and how deep the hole was. For Romney, with polls that consistently show him climbing when the focus is on the election but dipping when it goes elsewhere, the political path through November is clear. The president needs people seeing photos of the gay couples gathering at Chick-fil-A franchises for Friday night's planned “kiss-in” about as much as Romney wants independents hearing the latest social conservative soundbites about the evils of gay marriage.

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