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Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage has written a masterful and thorough article laying out the high-level strategic battle over traditional versus same-sex marriage in California and across the country.  The piece first appeared in National Review’s August 10 issue.    The Coalition for Marriage and Family has re-published Gallagher’s article here.   Those who have been following the issue will recognize just how spot-on Gallagher’s analysis is, and everyone who cares about the issue should read the entire article.  Here are some “teaser” paragraphs:

The headline on the story about a new CBS News/New York Times survey was interesting: “Poll: Support for Gay Marriage Dips.” How fast and how far had support for gay marriage had to drop before a mainstream-media headline acknowledged it, even as a “dip”?

Here’s the answer: 9 percentage points.

That’s right: In just a few short months, support for gay marriage in this poll plunged 9 percentage points, from its all-time high of 42 percent to 33 percent. . . .

Michael Barone, author of the Almanac of American Politics, writing in his syndicated column:

Barack Obama is from the university community of Hyde Park in Chicago. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco, and important House committee chairmen are from similar “gentry urban” locales — Henry Waxman from the West Side of Los Angeles, Charles Rangel from a district that includes not only Harlem but much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Barney Frank from Newton, Mass., next door to Boston. Of the 21 top leadership members and chairmen, five come from districts carried by John McCain, but the average vote in the other 16 districts was 71 percent to 27 percent for Obama.

This video, just released today by the Republican Minority Leader, John Boehner, attacks President Obama’s health care reform agenda by using the president’s own ill-advised statements against him. He has been a terrible spokesman for his side and that is now coming back to haunt him:

Watch the videos below the break:

Watch this video of a joint “town hall” appearance by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter, and see what happens when Specter talks about legislators making judgments “very fast.”

Do you think the public is unhappy with the way Congress and the Obama Administration are handling health care reform?

(HT: Instapundit, who has several more highly-recommended links.)