• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Body
  • Daily Resist
  • POLITICS
  • Travel
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Film
  • TV
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Men
  • Marriage Equality
  • Space
  • Trans Rights
  • Books
  • Science
  • Gay Iconography
  • TowleREAD

Pew Poll Sees Surge in Democratic Support for Marriage Equality

July 31, 2012 by Andy Towle

A new Pew Poll on marriage equality has been released today, one day after news broke that the Democratic Party would include it as a plank in the party platform at this year's Democratic Convention.

PewpollPew Forum reports:

Just four years ago, in 2008, only half (50%) of Democrats favored allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 42% were opposed. Support for gay marriage among Democrats has jumped to 65% today, more than double the percentage that is opposed (29%).

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, among 2,973 adults, finds that the partisan divide over gay marriage continues to widen. Just 24% of Republicans now favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, which is only slightly higher than the percentage of Republicans who supported gay marriage in 2008 (19%).

Independent support for gay marriage has grown substantially since 2008. More independents today favor (51%) than oppose (40%) gay marriage; four years ago independents were divided evenly (44% favor, 45% oppose).

Pew also says that Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was largely uninfluential. Read the whole report HERE.

DemocratsIn related news, Eleanor Clift at the Daily Beast writes about the marriage equality plank and what it means for both parties:

A Democratic strategist who declined to speak on the record says that in the two months since the Journal article, the candidates in question have had no difficulty asserting their independence on this issue. And with the economy such a dominant issue on the campaign trail, there isn’t an active debate about a social issue where the level of acceptance has increased so significantly. “It’s a net positive for Democrats as a whole because it generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in our base, and I don’t think we lose a single independent vote,” says the strategist.

With the Republicans poised to include support for traditional marriage in their party platform—a stance backed by Mitt Romney—the Democratic strategist takes it one step further. He says he believes there is “greater vulnerability for George Allen [running in Virginia] and Scott Brown [running in Massachusetts] to appear anti-equality. Ask Republicans if they are going to actively make this a campaign issue—I don’t think any of them will say yes.”

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Democratic Party, gay marriage, News

Recent Posts

  • Frothy, Drooling Trump Supporter Charged with Assault After Coughing, Spitting on BLM Protester: WATCH

    Frothy, Drooling Trump Supporter Charged with Assault After Coughing, Spitting on BLM Protester: WATCH

    17 hours ago
  • Hilaria Baldwin, AOC vs Schumer, La Scala, Jared Kushner and Pardons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Puerto Vallarta COVID: HOT LINKS

    Hilaria Baldwin, AOC vs Schumer, La Scala, Jared Kushner and Pardons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Puerto Vallarta COVID: HOT LINKS

    18 hours ago
  • Police Seek Two Suspects in Vicious Stabbing of Gay Black Man in Boston: WATCH

    Police Seek Two Suspects in Vicious Stabbing of Gay Black Man in Boston: WATCH

    20 hours ago
  • Jake Tapper Says Kayleigh McEnany ‘Lies The Way Most People Breathe’ and She Responds by Spitting Lies: WATCH

    Jake Tapper Says Kayleigh McEnany ‘Lies The Way Most People Breathe’ and She Responds by Spitting Lies: WATCH

    22 hours ago
Previous Post: « U.S. Gymnast Danell Leyva is a Show-off, But No One’s Complaining
Next Post: Trevor Thomas, in Home Stretch of Congressional Primary, Releases First Ad: VIDEO »

Primary Sidebar

  • Frothy, Drooling Trump Supporter Charged with Assault After Coughing, Spitting on BLM Protester: WATCH

  • Hilaria Baldwin, AOC vs Schumer, La Scala, Jared Kushner and Pardons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Puerto Vallarta COVID: HOT LINKS

  • Police Seek Two Suspects in Vicious Stabbing of Gay Black Man in Boston: WATCH

Recent Posts

  • Frothy, Drooling Trump Supporter Charged with Assault After Coughing, Spitting on BLM Protester: WATCH

    Frothy, Drooling Trump Supporter Charged with Assault After Coughing, Spitting on BLM Protester: WATCH

    17 hours ago
  • Hilaria Baldwin, AOC vs Schumer, La Scala, Jared Kushner and Pardons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Puerto Vallarta COVID: HOT LINKS

    Hilaria Baldwin, AOC vs Schumer, La Scala, Jared Kushner and Pardons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Puerto Vallarta COVID: HOT LINKS

    18 hours ago
  • Police Seek Two Suspects in Vicious Stabbing of Gay Black Man in Boston: WATCH

    Police Seek Two Suspects in Vicious Stabbing of Gay Black Man in Boston: WATCH

    20 hours ago
  • Jake Tapper Says Kayleigh McEnany ‘Lies The Way Most People Breathe’ and She Responds by Spitting Lies: WATCH

    Jake Tapper Says Kayleigh McEnany ‘Lies The Way Most People Breathe’ and She Responds by Spitting Lies: WATCH

    22 hours ago
  • ‘New York Post’ Scorches ‘Insane’ Trump in Editorial: ‘You Lost … It’s Time to End This Dark Charade … Sidney Powell is Crazy Person, Michael Flynn’s Behavior is Treasonous’

    ‘New York Post’ Scorches ‘Insane’ Trump in Editorial: ‘You Lost … It’s Time to End This Dark Charade … Sidney Powell is Crazy Person, Michael Flynn’s Behavior is Treasonous’

    23 hours ago
  • White Woman Goes Berserk at NYC Hotel, Assaulting Black Teen She Wrongly Accused of Stealing Her iPhone: WATCH

    White Woman Goes Berserk at NYC Hotel, Assaulting Black Teen She Wrongly Accused of Stealing Her iPhone: WATCH

    23 hours ago
  • Trump Signs COVID Stimulus Bill After Days of Taunts and Self-Indulgent Stonewalling

    Trump Signs COVID Stimulus Bill After Days of Taunts and Self-Indulgent Stonewalling

    1 day ago
  • Biden Slams Trump for Refusing to sign COVID Relief Bill: ‘The Abdication of Responsibility Has Devastating Consequences’

    Biden Slams Trump for Refusing to sign COVID Relief Bill: ‘The Abdication of Responsibility Has Devastating Consequences’

    2 days ago
  • FBI Investigating Whether Person of Interest in Nashville Bombing Was Paranoid About 5G Technology

    FBI Investigating Whether Person of Interest in Nashville Bombing Was Paranoid About 5G Technology

    2 days ago
  • Michael Alig Dead, Nashville, L.A. COVID, Lindsey Graham, 737 Max, The Queen, Roger Stone, Joe Exotic: WEEKEND HOT LINKS

    Michael Alig Dead, Nashville, L.A. COVID, Lindsey Graham, 737 Max, The Queen, Roger Stone, Joe Exotic: WEEKEND HOT LINKS

    3 days ago

Most Commented

  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Footer

Copyright © 2020 · Log in