Mr. Romney's stance on out-of-state couples is based on a 1913 law, adopted in part to bar interracial marriages.
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But they could also undermine him, as his debate performance Thursday highlighted a rigid antiwar stance out of sync with many Republicans.
According to a new book by longtime adviser David Axelrod, Obama personally supported legalizing gay marriage well before his announcement, but hid his stance out of political concerns.
The deeper problem with Time's cover story on Mexico's president is that it reveals a coddling, apologetic, and painfully out-of-touch stance on the part of U.S. news media outlets covering Mexico's current government agenda.
Obama hardly ran left-wing campaigns back in 2008 and 2012, instead embracing moderate policy stances while savaging his opponents as out-of-touch rich guys more comfortable plotting mass layoffs in corporate boardrooms than eating apple pie.
In effect, the writer creates several clusters of attitudinal stances, creating out of them a type of constellation of stances (c.f. Maton 2014: 168) which act to reinforce their positive axiological charge, i.e. their moral or ethical superiority.
She has dropped her pro-Palestinian stance, spoken out in favour of tough welfare policies and decked herself in hawk's plumage.
It should be noted that Mitt Romney, already trailing Obama on voter confidence in his foreign policy stances, is out of sync with the trends.
But the big reason he's been able to get away with making up a policy platform on the fly (often taking stances wildly out of sync with traditional Republican positions) is that Republicans just don't currently have a policy platform they can all agree upon.
