So that makes the gay vote all the more critical to him here.

"How can anyone who is gay vote for George Bush?"

That way, we don't even get the gay vote.

George Bush is said to have won around 40 percent of the gay vote in 1988.

He is likely to be all the more sensitive now, as he seeks re-election in a city with a powerful gay vote.

A23 The Democrats' persistent but subtle campaign for the gay vote.

Republicans never really had the gay vote anyway.

The active competition for the gay vote on the Democratic side is not being replicated by Republicans.

No nominee had done that before, and the opposing party views produced a national gay vote for the first time in the 1992 Presidential election.