Gay-Marriage Support in New Jersey Reaches High After Christie’s Bill Veto

[William769]

New Jersey (STONJ1) voters’ support for same- sex marriage reached a record high in the days after Republican Governor Chris Christie vetoed legislation to legalize the unions, a Quinnipiac University (78104MF) poll shows.

Registered voters favor gay marriage 57 percent to 37 percent, according to the survey released today. They also approve, 67 percent to 28 percent, Christie’s proposal to put the matter on the November ballot, a plan rejected by Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, leaders in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

“What’s left, for now anyway, is a political issue,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, said in a statement.

Seven U.S. states permit gay and lesbian partners the right to wed. In Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley is set to sign a bill as soon as today that would make his state the eighth, alongside Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont, plus the District of Columbia.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-01/new-jersey-gay-marriage-support-reaches-high-after-christie-veto.html

[monmouth]

1. I doubt Christie will be re-elected in Jersey, his popularity is sinking quickly...n/t