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Cotto & Co: Fred Karger, pres. campaign consultant, on LGBT political influence

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On Cotto & Co is Fred Karger a career political operative who rose to prominence by consulting the campaigns of notables such as Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole. His most famous cause, though, is not for a single politician but for an extremely divisive issue, same-sex marriage.

Karger brought much attention to the matter when he ran for the GOP’s presidential nomination during the 2012 primaries. In doing so, he became America’s first openly gay candidate for the presidency.

Over the last decade, same-sex marriage has gone from being an uncomfortable oddity to socially mainstream. Is this a result of the organized LGBT rights movement, or individual non-heterosexuals changing minds one by one?

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