President Barack Obama's declaration last week that his administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court may have energized anti-gay political forces just in time to influence the 2012 election cycle, some experts say. But public opinion may have shifted so dramatically in recent years that LGBT issues no longer divide Democrats and Republicans so much as they divide the Republican party itself, others note.
"The wedge has lost its edge," said Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist who worked on the 2004 campaign of President George W. Bush.
