it's a distraction and the left is traditionally grounded in a call for economic justice in a class-based analysis and, you know, disassembling economic hire aerarchies. and we have this strange inversion right now which is that when mitt romney gets asked cultural war questions in colorado about medical marijuana, gay marriage, illegal immigrati immigration, which back in the day would have been red meat. they wanted to get asked that so he can knock it out of the park, he gets angry and says let's talk about economic issues. and here carl rove accusing barack obama of politicizing gay marriage. >> remember, how political is this? he changed his mind but he was waiting until it was close to the convention in order to bring the maximum amount of benefit out of it. 30 states have defended traditional marriage. north carolina, critical value of one state voted the day