Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace

FiveThirtyEight by Nate Silver | Aug. 12, 2010 (News Analysis)

In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by several points, and as I reported yesterday, it has become increasingly unclear whether opposition to gay marriage still outweighs support for it. Full Story »

Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Memeorandum, FiveThirtyEight, Josh_Young (t), Fabrice Florin (f)

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Living
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Posted by: Posted by Jon Mitchell - Aug 12, 2010 - 6:21 AM PDT
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Aug 12, 2010 - 8:18 AM PDT

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 by Jon Mitchell - Aug. 12, 2010

I give this poll higher marks than I usually do, because FiveThirtyEight uses rigorous methodology and incorporate multiple polls. I also just want to point out that the newsworthiness of this poll (the first indication that the majority of the public supports same-sex marriage) might have positively biased my review.

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