Winston probably got the votes because everyone overvalues potential . People don ' t seem to realize how hard it is to actually produce and when you do its almost immediately forgotten without a ring . <| sep |> I wouldn ' t be so certain about that for marriage equality at least . Some people are very , very serious about not wanting gay people to be openly ' out and about ' in public and marriage is just one aspect of it but an important one to them . I ' m not saying most or even many of them would consider starting a lynch mob or even picketing a courthouse , but it ' s not uncommon for some religious and evangelical groups to find it extremely distasteful and basically celebrating an illness . Prejudice doesn ' t necessarily mean someone who ' s out waving flags and making death threats . but it still may heavily influence their vote . That said . Trump seems fairly neutral on that and still won the Republican primary , so that does say something given there were far more vocal social policy candidates . And that was before he ' d picked Pence .