Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Gay marriage polls

  • WASHINGTON — Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House.
  • (Evansville Courier-Press)
  • In France, outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy opposes gay marriage - though recent polls suggest that a majority of French voters support it.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • President Obama appears to have gone against the safest read of polling data on gay marriage, with support for legalization underwater in a handful of swing states and among key Obama constituencies like Hispanics and black voters.
  • (Politico.com)
  • The other two facts that probably made his decision easiest were contained in a Gallup Poll released this week, which showed that 65% of Democrats and 57% of independents agree that gay marriage should be legal.
  • (CNN)
  • Though public opinion polls show support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing over the past five years, 44 states don't allow gay couples to marry. Yet Americans have grown more accepting of same-sex marriage over the last decade.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • And polls show that younger people especially favor gay marriage in increasing numbers.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Not any more. Support for gay marriage has risen rapidly in polls, particularly among young people. It stands at 50% in the most recent Gallup Poll, up from 27% in 1996.
  • (USA Today)
  • John Eichelberger, R-Blair. Nationally, public opinion on gay marriage has shifted in recent years, with most polls now finding the public evenly split, rather than opposed. Six states — including neighboring New York — allow same sex marriages.
  • (Associated Press)
  • Ive always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated there may be drawbacks to such a strong expression of support.
  • (Huffington Post)

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