{"id":50561,"date":"2012-08-20T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50561"},"modified":"2012-08-20T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:29:51","slug":"political-affiliation-and-support-of-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/20\/political-affiliation-and-support-of-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Affiliation and Support of Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>and the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/polling\/illegal-lesbian-couples-married\/2012\/08\/18\/acd4f866-e984-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_page.html#\" target=\"_blank\">survey of 3,130 adults about their position on same-sex marriage<\/a>. The survey found that just over half of all adults and registered voters thought same-sex couples should be able to get married:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-1.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50562\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, this varies greatly by political affiliation, with Democrats and Republicans mirroring each other &#8212; 2\/3rds of Democrats support same-sex marriages, while the same proportion of Republicans oppose it. Well over half of Independents also agree that same-sex marriage should be legal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-2.jpg.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50563\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-2.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also see the results by party clusters &#8212; that is, different groups within the parties (the <em>Post\u00a0<\/em>unfortunately doesn&#8217;t describe the clusters). Urban liberals were most supportive (93%), while those identifying with the Tea Party were least (6%):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-3.jpg.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50564\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/08\/WaPo-gay-marriage-poll-3.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These numbers tell us a lot about why the Democratic party appears to be on the verge of adopting a platform that explicitly includes marital equality as a goal. This position is unlikely to alienate many people within the party or Independents who might lean Democratic, since only a small minority of both groups &#8220;strongly&#8221; oppose same-sex marriage. We&#8217;re at a point where a major political party can make the calculation that openly stating they support allowing gay and lesbian couples to get married helps its political chances more than it potentially hurts them.<\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/new-poll-finds-tea-party-is-political-group-that-hates-gays-the-most\/politics\/2012\/08\/19\/46939\" target=\"_blank\">New Civil Rights Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0and the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a survey of 3,130 adults about their position on same-sex marriage. The survey found that just over half of all adults and registered voters thought same-sex couples should be able to get married: Unsurprisingly, this varies greatly by political affiliation, with Democrats and Republicans mirroring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[272,85,8121,54],"class_list":["post-50561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-election-2012","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50566,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561\/revisions\/50566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}