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NC, USA: New Poll Shows Voter Views Unchanged on Amendment One

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

55% of survey respondents favor the ballot measure that would constitutionally ban marriage and other forms of relationship recognition for gay couples. 41% of respondents oppose the measure.

The latest numbers on North Carolina’s Amendment One shows that 55% of survey respondents favor the ballot measure that would constitutionally ban marriage and other forms of relationship recognition for gay couples, according to a poll released Tuesday afternoon by Public Policy Polling. 41% of respondents oppose the measure, only a 1-point increase over the last survey conducted in April.

A crucial caveat remains, however: When those surveyed were informed about the amendment’s broad authority to outlaw civil unions, only 38% supported it, compared to 46% opposed.

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NC, USA: New Poll Shows 7 Point Drop in Support for Amendment One Since October

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

As we noted below, President Obama is in North Carolina today — but won’t speak out against the viciously anti-gay Amendment One, which would ban marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. Early voting began last week in advance of the May 8th primary. This is a hot topic in North Carolina, particularly for young voters.

Today, we’re seeing evidence that the polling is moving in our direction. Public Policy Polling which is based in North Carolina, found that support for the Amendment has dropped by four points — while our side is picking up support. PPP’s blog post is titled: Momentum moving against NC amendment.

Momentum is turning against North Carolina’s proposed marriage amendment. PPP’s newest poll finds only 54% of voters in the state planning to support it, while 40% are opposed. This is the lowest level of support PPP has found in monthly polling of the amendment since last October. When PPP first polled on it six months ago 61% supported it with only 34% opposed, so its current 14 point lead has been cut almost in half from the 27 point advantage it started out with.

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NH, USA: Marriage Equality Support Jumps 13% in One Year

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

The Rockefeller Center’s fifth annual New Hampshire State of the State Poll, released last week, finds that support for marriage equality has increased 13 percent from a year ago, with 55 percent of respondents endorsing the 2009 law:

The proportion of respondents in support of same-sex marriage in the state of New Hampshire increased from 41.5 percent in 2011 to 55.1 percent this year.

The rate of opposition decreased from 42.2 percent last year to under one-third (30.9 percent) in this year’s survey. The majority of registered Democrats or Undeclared voters are in support of same-sex marriage (76 percent and 66 percent, respectively). Under one-third (29 percent) of Republicans surveyed support the measure.

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NC, USA: Poll Says 45% Think Marriage Equality Will be Legal in State Within Twenty Years

Monday, April 16th, 2012

North Carolinians agree with State House Speaker Thom Tillis: gay marriage will be legal in the state 20 years from now. 45% think the state will have gay marriage a generation from now compared to 41% who think it will continue to be illegal.

Independent voters are the most optimistic for gay marriage (54/29) while Democrats think it will become a reality as well (52/35).

Republicans (29% legal, 56% illegal) think the status quo will still rule in a couple of decades.

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CO, USA: 53% Support Marriage Equality

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

A majority of Coloradans support legalizing gay marriage, a new survey has found. According to a poll of 542 Colorado voters released Friday by Public Polling Policy, 53 percent of respondents support the institution, while 40 percent say marriage should remain a union exclusive to heterosexual couples.

An overwhelming number of respondents also preferred marriage (47%) over civil unions (28%) for gay couples. Only 22 percent said there should be no legal recognition whatsoever for the relationships of gay couples.

“Colorado is another in a growing number of states where polls show voters are rapidly shifting towards supporting legal gay marriage,” Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, said in releasing the poll’s findings.

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UK: 56% of MP’s Think Marriage Equality Will Pass

Monday, April 9th, 2012

A cross-party survey of MPs by ComRes has found that only 56 per cent of them believed that the proposals to include same-sex couples in civil marriages would succeed, which reduced to 41 per cent with Tory MPs. By contrast, more than two-thirds of Labour MPs and almost all of Liberal Democrats were confident that things would go ahead as planned.

The poll, commissioned by the anti-equality campaign group Coalition for Marriage, also found that three-fifths of the MPs did not think the policy was of “significant importance” to their constituents, a proportion which rose by 9% amongst the Tories. In keeping with these trends, the survey found that 37 per cent of Tory MPs thought the proposals were bound to fail, with almost 22 per cent being unsure of which way things will head.

When asked if civil partnerships already provided the same legal rights as those afforded by marriage, more than 60 per cent of MPs agreed with the statement, though that proportion reduced to 50% with Labour MPs and 43% among Liberal Democrats.

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ME, USA: New Poll Shows 58% Support Marriage Equality

Friday, April 6th, 2012

A new poll shows that 58 percent of Maine voters now support marriage equality with only about 40 percent opposed, suggesting great promise for November’s referendum to legalize it.

Though still within the margin of error, this is greater approval than the measure had just last month at 54 percent. Maine’s ballot initiative represents the first time U.S. voters will ever have the opportunity to vote YES for the freedom to marry, and there are still seven months before the election to raise enthusiasm even higher.

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USA: New Poll Says 59% of Latinos Say Gays Should Be Accepted By Society

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Latinos are more likely than other Americans to say they’re liberal, according to a poll out Wednesday. Three out of 10 Latino adults say they consider themselves liberal compared to 21 percent of the general U.S. public, the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos poll found. And more native-born Hispanics than immigrant Hispanics say they are “very liberal” or “liberal,” 34 percent to 27 percent.

Three out of 10 Latino adults say they consider themselves liberal, compared with 21 percent of the general U.S. public, the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos poll found. And more U.S.-born Hispanics than Hispanic immigrants say they are “very liberal” or “liberal,” 34 percent to 27 percent.

Looking at the other end of the spectrum, 32 percent of Hispanics say their political views are “very conservative” or “conservative,” and 34 percent of all U.S. adults say the same. Meanwhile, Latinos born in another country are more likely than those born in the U.S. to describe themselves as conservative, with 35 percent to 28 percent.

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NC: New Poll Says 60% Oppose Amendment One

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

An Elon University Poll released Monday found that six out of ten persons in North Carolina would oppose an amendment to the state constitution that prevents any same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships or civil unions.

According to the polling data released by the university, only 38 percent of respondents said they support same-sex marriage.

However, a majority (60 percent) said they are opposed to the proposed Amendment One, while conversely 32 percent said that they favor the amendment.

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AK: Gay Rights Ordinance Ahead, Poll Says

Friday, March 30th, 2012

It cannot be overstated that if Anchorage’s proposed LGBT non-discrimination protections pass, it could have a huge impact on the future of LGBT rights in Alaska. Currently, polling shows the measure known as Proposition 5 winning with 50-41 support from voters. Nevertheless, the campaign is getting ugly and attracting national attention as a result.

The campaign against Prop 5 is being led by an Anchorage megachurch known as Anchorage Baptist Temple, which has donated 61 percent of the nearly $80,000 effort.

Claiming that there’s no evidence of “widespread discrimination” and that “Anchorage is already a tolerant city,” these opponents are disproving their own point with a series of ads that portray transgender people in incredibly negative ways. One ad portrays trans people as “transvestites” who are somehow a threat to children while another shows a cross-dressing man using a women’s locker room to the detriment of a gym owner’s business.

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