Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 2/3-6. Registered voters. MoE 3.1% (1/16 results)
Which of the following best describes your opinion on gay marriage: gay couples should be allowed to legally marry, or gay couples should be allowed to form civil unions but not legally marry, or there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship.
Marry Civil unions Neither
All 31 (34) 34 (31) 34 (33)
Dem 46 (53) 30 (24) 21 (20)
Rep 10 (11) 34 (35) 55 (52)
Ind 36 (37) 38 (34) 25 (27)
Lib 67 (78) 20 (10) 11 (12)
Mod 37 (40) 39 (38) 22 (20)
Con 9 (8) 32 (32) 56 (57)
Tea Party 13 (17) 36 (30) 50 (52)
Non-TP 38 (42) 33 (30) 27 (27)
18-29 41 (52) 26 (13) 32 (33)
30-45 35 (37) 29 (31) 34 (29)
46-65 27 (31) 34 (36) 33 (31)
65+ 22 (23) 41 (34) 34 (42)
Not much has changed since kos wrote about our initial results on marriage equality last month:
We're going to be asking this question every four weeks, so over the next several years, we should have some fascinating trendlines to look at. For now, this is our own baseline, and not surprisingly, it is conservatives/Republicans/Teabaggers who hate the notion of marriage equality. Also unsurprising -- opposition to equality is directly correlated with age, and as that older generation dies off, it is replaced with the infinitely more tolerant millenials. That's why the rightwing is desperately trying to codify their hate into law and state constitutions -- because they know the march of progress and the changing culture is headed toward a more tolerant future, not less.
One thing to note is that while the top lines haven't changed much, the numbers within groups have changed. That's largely because with sub samples, the margin of error is a bit higher. Fundamentally, not much has changed: an overwhelming majority of Americans support at least civil unions for same sex couples.
Another thing that is fairly interesting is that in all the age cohorts, one-third are opposed to any legal recognition, but younger people are more likely to support full equality than older folks. So it seems that those who are most committed to bigotry might be set in their ways, but within the two-thirds of the country that is more tolerant, there's some flexibility.