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04/30/2009
Increased equality makes America's poll rise, makes us all less polarized
First there was that amazingly encouraging CBS News/NY poll that showed Americans now support marriage equality at a 42% high. Now comes these even more encouraging findings from ABC News-WaPo:
At its low, in 2004, just 32 percent of Americans favored gay marriage, with 62 percent opposed. Now 49 percent support it versus 46 percent opposed -- the first time in ABC/Post polls that supporters have outnumbered opponents.
More than half, moreover -- 53 percent -- say gay marriages held legally in another state should be recognized as legal in their states.
ABC News-Washington Post Poll: 49 Percent Support Gay Marriage, New High [ABC News]
But don't worry, anti-gays who have so smugly and overconfidently used popular opinion as a bully club. Being constantly told that the public is against you does, undeniably, sting at first. But after awhile, you start to get used to it.
Plus, we actually have no desire to opportunistically use heterosexual lives and loves against anyone, so there's actually a pretty good chance that you who have made our lives an ever-lovinghurting hell will get off without ever having to suffer the decades of tyranny that you so brazenly waged against us. You're welcome for that.
Your thoughts
Statement about how the poll is "flawed" coming in 5...4...3...2...
Posted by: RainbowPhoenix | Apr 30, 2009 11:55:34 AM
A WP/ABC poll can be flawed in some ways regarding exact numbers (it does tend to have a "liberal" bent), but the trend is real. A recent CBS Poll is showing a similar bounce.
Posted by: Bruno | Apr 30, 2009 4:53:42 PM
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