WINDY CITY MEGAN THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, RAPINOE BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 INTERVIEW OCT. 31, 2012 VOL 28, NO. 4 PAGE 30 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.comTIMES Counting down to election night BY LISA KEEN polls show a close race. Each side can point to some 27. And he can note that the New York Times’ respected LGBT ACTIVISTS KEEN NEWS SERVICE data that signal promise for its candidate. Republican fivethirtyeight.com site has calculated a 74-percent challenger Mitt Romney can point to the average of chance that the president will hang onto the White FROM TURKEY, There are many key votes on the line next Tuesday, Nov. polls calculated by RealClearPolitics.com and say he’s House, securing 296 electoral votes when he needs only PHILIPPINES 6: The first real prospect for electing an openly gay almost one point ahead in the popular vote. He can 270 to win. page 7 person to the U.S. Senate, the probability of winning a point to the Gallup Poll’s daily tracking that, as of Oct. For most LGBT people, who wins the White House marriage equality vote in at least one of five states, and 28, showed him the choice of 50 percent of 2,700 likely spells the difference between a candidate who has said the possibility of the partisan majority changing hands voters, compared to 46 percent for incumbent Demo- he believes one should treat gay people “the way you in either the House or Senate. Altogether, they make for cratic President Barack Obama. would want to be treated” and a candidate who has said an edge-of-your-seat, hold-your-breath drama. 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