<div><br>Joe wrote:</div>
<div><br>Second, I think that Donovan is wrong in suggesting that Idaho will not vote<br>for a gay candidate.</div>
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<div>Nicole Lefavour was elected to the Idaho state senate, becoming the first openly gay person ever elected in the state:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://4idaho.org/biography/index.htm" target="_blank">http://4idaho.org/biography/index.htm</a></div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.victoryfund.org/about_us/history" target="_blank">http://www.victoryfund.org/about_us/history</a></div>
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<div>She was interviewed the past few days in Boise for national news about the Craig issue. I was happy to see this, given the reputation Idaho has around the nation as a bigoted state.</div>
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<div>However, don't expect an openly gay US Senator from Idaho to be elected any time soon... Idaho passed a super DOMA by a wide margin in 2006. And Idaho remains one of the most solidly "conservative" states in the nation, even after the Blue Revolution in 2006.
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<div>Ted Moffett</div></span></div><br> </div>