Last week, I wrote a cover story for the Phoenix on the Smith Hill battle over same-sex marriage.
Partisans on both sides are focused, at the moment, on the lobbying effort in the General Assembly. But hanging over that effort is the prospect of electioneering, by advocates and opponents alike, in the 2012 races.
Some of the senators I spoke with voiced doubt that a single issue could make or break their re-election efforts.