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Poll: 59% Of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage

According to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 59% of Americans support marriage equality, while only 33% oppose (8% said “Depends/Not sure”).

This marks a dramatic shift in the past ten years alone.

In 2004, only 30 percent of Americans said they supported same-sex marriage, while 62 percent disagreed. Half of those polled at the time said they strongly opposed allowing gays and lesbians to marry.

Democratic pollster Fred Yang noted how quickly public opinion has shifted on the issue, even compared to interracial marriage, which is now almost universally accepted.

“It took about 25 years for interracial marriage to get from 30 percent support to 60 percent,” he said. “It took same-sex marriage ten years.”

The share of the public backing same-sex marriage has even jumped from just two years ago, when 53 percent of Americans backed it and 42 percent did not.

The jump in the last two years comes, in part, from three segments of society: Republicans (13% increase), senior (7% increase) and Hispanics (18% increase)

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Poll: Majority Of Americans Support Plans To Reestablish Diplomatic Relations With Cuba

According to a recent CBS poll, a majority of Americans support President Obama’s decision to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba:

In the wake of President Obama’s surprise announcement of an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 54 percent of Americans approve of reestablishing both diplomatic and trade relations between the two countries, while just 28 percent disapprove. Democrats and independents support reestablishing relations with Cuba, while Republicans are divided.

Evaluations of President Obama’s handling of relations with Cuba are mixed: 44 percent of Americans approve and 36 percent disapprove.

Even though the question of renewed relations with Cuba divides Republicans, they overwhelmingly disapprove (67 percent) of the President’s handling of the matter. Most Democrats approve (72 percent), while independents are divided.

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Poll: New Jersey Would Not Pick Gov. Christie In 2016 Presidential Run

A recent Quinnipiac poll shows New Jersey voters, who would theoretically know their governor best, would not pick Gov. Chris Christie over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a presidential matchup.

When asked to choose between Christie and Clinton, Hillary came out on top 50-39 percent with the traditionally blue state voters.

Other Republicans fare just as poorly or worse.

• Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush 53-31%
• Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul 55-31%
• 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney 52-35%

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Poll: Strong Majority of Americans Support LGBT Workplace Protections

A new poll commissioned by Out & Equal Workplace Advocates shows a strong majority of Americans support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act currently passed by the US Senate but languishing in the House.

The results of the poll via press release:

• 65% of American adults agree that federal law should be expanded to include protection from job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• 55% of all adults don’t believe that any employers should be exempt if ENDA were to become law

• Only 35% of all adults believe churches or other houses of worship should be exempt

• Only 30% believe privately held businesses with owners citing religious beliefs should be exempt

• Just 21% of adults believe publicly held businesses citing religious beliefs should be exempt

• Only 19% believe small businesses generally should be exempt

“This year’s survey reinforces what we are seeing in companies, government agencies and businesses around the country – even around the world– that more and more business leaders are supporting workplace equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees,” said Selisse Berry, Founder, CEO, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates.

“While this is good news we still have work to do to protect employees who can still be fired in 29 U.S. states for being LGBT and in 32 if one is transgender. Out & Equal will continue to work with our partners to build workplace equality for all members of our LGBT community.”

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Poll: Fifty percent of Americans believe same-sex marriage is a protected right under the Constitution

According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, 50% of Americans believe that same-sex marriage is protected by the US Constitution under the Equal Protection clause. Forty-three percent do not agree.

It is the Equal Protection clause that has been cited in case after case, in state after state, as the basis for successful passage of same-sex marriage rights.

To the broader point of support for marriage equality in general, 56% of Americans support the freedom to marry while 38% oppose.

The Washington Post has an interactive map which shows the current status of same-sex marriage state by state.

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Bad news continues in the polls for Republicans

According to a CNN/ORC International poll released Monday 54% of Americans think it’s bad that Republicans control the House. That’s up from 43 percent in December 2012, during the last fiscal standoff. This is the first first time a majority thought GOP  control was bad for the country since CNN started asking in December 2010.

The bad news doesn’t stop there:

• 63% percent of respondents want Boehner replaced

• An NBC/WSJ poll taken during the shutdown showed that approval of the Republicans in DC had fallen to a record low of 24%

• A recent Gallup poll showed another record low for the GOP, with only 28 percent approving

• A poll released Sunday funded by Moveon.org and conducted by the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling showed that incumbent Republicans trailed generic Democrats in 15 of 25 competitive House districts.

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Could the GOP lose the House in Fall 2014 elections?

Public Policy Polling compiled two dozen surveys from House districts with GOP incumbents from around the country, taken from Oct. 2 through Oct. 4. Sample sizes were between 600 and 700 voters in each district.

For Democrats to win a House majority, 17 seats would need to switch to their party’s favor.

Results show that would be within reach, as Republican incumbents are behind in 17 of the districts analyzed: CA-31, CO-06, FL-02, FL-10, FL-13, IA-03, IA-04, IL-13, KY-06, MI-01, MI-07, MI-11, NY-19, OH-14, PA-07, PA-08, WI-07.

In 4 additional districts, the incumbent Republican fell behind after respondents were told their representative supported the government shutdown: CA-10, NY-11, NY-23, VA-02.

That makes for 21 possible seats that could change to Democrat next fall.  Again – only need 17.

Three districts saw GOP incumbents maintain their hold over their Democratic challengers, even after hearing their elected officials’ views on the shutdown, including CA-21, NV-03 and OH-06.

(via HuffPost)

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Marriage equality support hits record high in USA

Support for same-sex marriage in the United States has hit a record high just days after landmark US Supreme Court rulings on the issue, a poll showed Tuesday.

According to a survey published by USA Today,  55 percent of participants versus 40 percent said they believed same-sex marriages should be recognized as valid, with couples granted the same rights as heterosexual couples.

The only two demographic groups where a majority remained opposed to same-sex marriage were Republicans (68 percent) and people over the age of 65 (51 percent).

The poll of 1,003 adults was carried out between June 27-30 by Princeton Survey Research Associates, with a margin of error of 3.6 points either way.

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