Poll finds support in Mass. for gay marriage ruling

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<Fifty percent of Massachusetts residents surveyed for a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll said they agreed with the ruling, while 38 percent opposed it. A separate Boston Sunday Herald poll found 49 percent said they support legalizing gay marriage, while 38 percent oppose it.>

<Both polls released Sunday found opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment _ 53 percent opposed and 36 percent in favor in the Globe/WBZ poll of 400 Massachusetts resident, and 54 percent opposed and 36 percent in favor in the Herald poll of 405 residents.>

<Another poll, by Merrimack College, found that 75 percent of Massachusetts adults support either allowing gay marriage or civil unions. That poll of 491 adults was conducted in the days before and after the decision, but the numbers didn't shift after the ruling. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.>

<The polls appear to show more support for gay couples in Massachusetts than the nation as a whole. A recent national poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found Americans oppose legalizing gay marriage, 59 percent to 32 percent. That survey, of 1,515 adults, was conducted Oct. 15-19 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.>

[terrya]

1. Hey, that sounds like a decent margin...

So, why am I hearing that a vast, overwhelming majority of Americans oppose gay marriage in any form (Robert Novak was peddling that message on Capital Gang last night. Ditto Pat Buchanan on "The McLaughlin Group)

Judging from this poll, a majority of Massachusetts residents don't seem to have a problem with gay marriage.

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2. They are right

Most Americans oppose it--they even oppose civil unions. Massachusetts is arguably the most liberal state in America so it is an anomaly. There is still plenty of work to do on the GLBT rights front.