Hillary Clinton’s campaign issues a press release yesterday talking up their “LGB” support. Taking a look at the Hunter College poll cited by Hillary’s campaign, I found this nugget:”When asked about the proposed federal law making it illegal to discriminate against lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in employment, LGBs (by a margin of 60 to 37 percent) said that those seeking to pass the law were wrong to remove protections for transgendered people in order to get the votes necessary for passage in Congress.”

Interestingly, the Hunter College poll was done by the very same polling firm, Knowledge Networks, used by HRC for it’s “Hail Mary” poll—and funded by a grant from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Unlike the HRC poll, the Hunter College poll published all the details of its responses and methodology.

Hmmm… Hunter College’s poll says 60 percent of gays and lesbians thought excluding gender identity/expression was a mistake, HRC’s poll says 68 percent of them said dump the trannies—now that’s a margin of error…

Interestingly, the Hunter College poll also found the same percentage of respondents (36%) saying “rights of transgender people” and “ending the military’s ban on being openly gay” were “extremely important” goals. (Both tied for sixth on the list of top goals. The other goals, in order of preference, were: enacting employment non-discrimination laws, protections from bias crimes, securing spousal benefits, AIDS funding, legalizing same-sex marriage.)

BTW, as Autumn said: ”The first two paragraphs of the press release might not have mentioned T’s because they didn’t find enough T’s to be statistically significant for their poll, but I would think that in the last paragraph—where she mentions what she would do as president—she certaintly could have added that she was for LGBT civil rights/equality.” Given Hillary’s campaign is relentlessly on-message and never does anything until her people have thoroughly studied, vetted and surveyed the issue, I have a hard time thinking the omission was accidental.