Apparently no one really much cares about keeping the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy but grandstanding politicians. Here is what Nate Silver says over at 538:
When the policy was established, none of the three positions had majority support among Americans. Forty-four percent supported open service, 37 opposed any service, and 19 percent supported allowing gay men and lesbians to serve only if they did not reveal their sexual orientation. Today, one position has emerged as the clear preference of the majority of Americans. Seventy-five percent of Americans support open service, 17 oppose any service, and only 8 percent support the compromise position of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Members of the military are equally uninterested in keeping the policy as demonstrated by the Pentagon's newly released report on the matter:
The report, the result of a nine-month study, said that repealing the law would present a low risk to military effectiveness. It also found that 70 percent of service members believe that the impact of repealing the law would be positive, mixed or of no consequence at all.
So, as I noted, unless you are a politician trying to make a fuss out of nothing this is pretty much a settled matter.
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