{"id":13122,"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-08T23:42:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T23:42:38","slug":"51-of-californians-support-marriage-equality-as-majority-wishes-a-doover-on-2003-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/09\/51-of-californians-support-marriage-equality-as-majority-wishes-a-doover-on-2003-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"51% of Californians Support Marriage Equality as Majority Wishes a Do-Over on 2003 Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fairly consistent with numbers that we&#8217;ve seen in the past, but PPP has just released their own data showing a majority favoring full marriage equality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-The tide is turning in support of gay marriage in California. 51% of voters in the state now think it should be legal while 40% think it should remain illegal. It was just a little over 2 years ago that the state passed Proposition 8 but these numbers are reflective of a general liberalization in the views of Americans toward same sex marriage. (<a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/california-miscellaneous.html\">PPP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The numbers get even better when you pull out senior citizens at 53-38. &nbsp;It is only a matter of time before we have full marriage equality in California and, eventually, the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they also tested a retrospective on the 2003 recall, and guess what, Californians wish they hadn&#8217;t done that. &nbsp;By a 42-32 margin, voters would have refrained from recalling Davis. &nbsp;Too bad we can&#8217;t take back the past seven years and the havoc the Governator wrought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fairly consistent with numbers that we&#8217;ve seen in the past, but PPP has just released their own data showing a majority favoring full marriage equality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-The tide is turning in support of gay marriage in California. 51% of voters in the state now think it should be legal while 40% think it should remain illegal. It was just a little over 2 years ago that the state passed Proposition 8 but these numbers are reflective of a general liberalization in the views of Americans toward same sex marriage. (<a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/california-miscellaneous.html\">PPP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The numbers get even better when you pull out senior citizens at 53-38. &nbsp;It is only a matter of time before we have full marriage equality in California and, eventually, the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they also tested a retrospective on the 2003 recall, and guess what, Californians wish they hadn&#8217;t done that. &nbsp;By a 42-32 margin, voters would have refrained from recalling Davis. &nbsp;Too bad we can&#8217;t take back the past seven years and the havoc the Governator wrought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,1608],"tags":[357,5576],"class_list":["post-13122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-1608","tag-357","tag-5576"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3pE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}