{"id":9046,"date":"2009-06-03T21:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:23:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-04T01:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T01:59:34","slug":"marriage-poll-47-support-48-oppose-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/marriage-poll-47-support-48-oppose-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Poll: 47  Support, 48 Oppose Marriage Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, David Binder and Amy Simon ran a poll paid for by a coalition of LGBT, civil rights organizations, and hey the Calitics CaliPAC. I want to thank everybody who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/calitics\">supported the CaliPAC<\/a> as we work for equality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked, &#8220;Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose allowing same-sex couples to be legally married,&#8221; 47% say favor and 48% say oppose. Support for any given ballot measure will depend on the specific language of that measure. For example, results show that support increases if the language specifically includes a provision that says no clergy will be required to perform a service that goes against their faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of 2010 vs 2012, there a ton of factors. Turnout might favor marriage equality, however, 2012 will also pull a lot of our volunteers to Nevada and other places for Obama. Who knows what else will be on the ballot to drive turnout in each of these general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Links and more details forthcoming. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/calitics\/2009\/06\/03\/Polling-Memo-Conference-Call\">here is a conference call with a lot more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, David Binder and Amy Simon ran a poll paid for by a coalition of LGBT, civil rights organizations, and hey the Calitics CaliPAC. I want to thank everybody who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/calitics\">supported the CaliPAC<\/a> as we work for equality.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked, &#8220;Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose allowing same-sex couples to be legally married,&#8221; 47% say favor and 48% say oppose. Support for any given ballot measure will depend on the specific language of that measure. For example, results show that support increases if the language specifically includes a provision that says no clergy will be required to perform a service that goes against their faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of 2010 vs 2012, there a ton of factors. Turnout might favor marriage equality, however, 2012 will also pull a lot of our volunteers to Nevada and other places for Obama. Who knows what else will be on the ballot to drive turnout in each of these general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Links and more details forthcoming. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/calitics\/2009\/06\/03\/Polling-Memo-Conference-Call\">here is a conference call with a lot more details<\/a>.<\/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":[1608],"tags":[5576],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608","tag-5576"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2lU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046","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=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}