In California, 49% oppose gay marriage. 47% support it (new SurveyUSA poll)

[Old Hank]

Do you think same-sex couples should? Or should not? be allowed to marry in California?

47% should
49% should not
4% not sure

Furthermore, 49% want "Proposition 8" to remain law. 38% want it overturned. 12% are not sure.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=5a8ab8b0-ef7a-43f7-b7d9-3b3240c48051

I particularly support gay marriage. I just don't see how my life would be affected by such event.

[cbayer]

1. Very small sample size (600) with an MOE of 4.1%.

I wouldn't put much stock in this poll and I certainly hope that it is not an accurate reflection of Californians. That would be shameful.

[pleah]

3. That explains it. Thanks.

:)

I knew something wasn't right about those numbers.

[blue_onyx]

4. The poll results seem similar to the election results though

If you split the "not sure" votes evenly, it would make it 51% Oppose and 49% support. It was 52 vs 48 in the election.

[dsc]

6. I fail to see why this result would be surprising

it mirrors the result of the vote.

[EFerrari]

9. For one thing, H8 was lost in L.A. County.

That county was RIFE with election "problems" and I've yet to hear if they were ever resolved.

For another, the numbers are well within the MOE.

[EFerrari]

7. Agreed. Imho, CA like most of the rest of the country, is moving more quickly

than the political class even imagined to backing GLBT civil rights. A little bit of light. :)

[pleah]

2. What has happened to California? I thought that

it was one of the more open states.:shrug:

[EFerrari]

10. California has deep blue and deep red areas. We're all over the map.

But the CITIES should go blue. That they didn't on this vote was not about the voters but about the ant-H8 campaign, imho.

That's all right. We'll do better next time.

[pleah]

13. Hope so.

:hi:

[ronnykmarshall]

5. and so the assholes that ran No on 8 want to put it on ballot in 2010?

Fuck!

No wonder we lost.

Give it time ... I hate to say that ... but I am PISSED that the so call "leaders" of gay rights in California are so god-damn blind they want to put this back on the ballot so soon.

[EFerrari]

8. Except now we have their playbook.

His assHoliness the ArchBishop of our Arch Diocese has been completely busted -- from his invitation to his Mormon moneybags to his framing of black voters. There's no way he can pull the same thing off again.

And, I don't know how you feel about this, but if it goes back on the ballot, I am not going to wait for HRC or ANYONE to tell me what I can do or how. I'm going out there with gay allies on my f#cking own as I should have in the first place but didn't out of some kind of messed up idea of respect.

[keepCAblue]

11. Who cares? 70% or more opposed interracial marriages back in '48...

...when the CA Supreme Court ruled that anti-miscegnation laws were unconstitutional. Ditto for the majority of Americans, nearly 20 years later when the SCOTUS ruled in Loving v. Virginia.

Regardless of what surveys or polls say, the granting of a minority group's civil rights should not be determined by a popularity vote or majority rule.

[msongs]

12. 50%+1 = no gay marriage YET budget requires 66% - repub hypocrisy nt

[Skittles]

14. I honestly did not realize there were so many bigots in California

it surprises me

[bemildred]

15. California: 70% think polls are full of shit, 25% support them. nt