Americans’ support for same-sex marriage is at a new high of 55 percent, according to a new Gallup poll.
The poll released Wednesday found support for recognizing same-sex marriage as legal has edged up two points since 2012 and is at its highest mark since Gallup began polling the question in 1996.
Younger Americans and Democrats are the most supportive of same-sex marriage, the poll found. 78 percent of those aged 18 to 29 said they support it along with 74 percent of Democrats.
Comparatively, 42 percent of people aged 65 and older and just 30 percent of Republicans said they support same-sex marriage. However, Republicans have nearly doubled their support since the firm began tracking the question.
The poll’s findings follow federal judges’ decisions this week to overturn same-sex marriage bans in Oregon and Pennsylvania, making gay marriage legal across the entire northeast.
The poll surveyed 1,028 adults by phone from May 8-11 and has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
I think it has to exceed 60 percent in order to count. At least that is what Mitch McConnell told me.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the courts are doing for gay marriage what would have had to be done at the polls, otherwise. The GOP leaders are smart enough to know that as long as the courts make gay marriage legal, the ball’s out of their hands, so they don’t have to have that fight, electorally, which takes away a Democratic talking/running point.
So this poll and the recent rulings are all good news for the country, but bad news politically, for Dems. Ach, irony.
If it was just girl-on-girl, support would be up near 80%.
Huh? Rights should never, ever be put to a vote. So no this should never have been or should be issue to be solved at the polls.
Respectfully disagree.
This helps Democrats at the margins politically. The rabid socially Conservative base of the GOP will still agitate over this issue and it will be a part of any stump speech from the likes of Huckabee and Santorum. However, any Republican looking to win statewide will stay away from the issue like the plague.