WaPo/ABC Poll: 61% support SSM; 1st time more than 6 in 10 support

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/poll-gay-marriage-support-at-record-high/2015/04/22/f6548332-e92a-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html

Highlights:
61% support, 35% oppose.

Compare this to 2005, when 58% opposed and only 39% supported.
For the Under-30 crowd, they went from 57% support in 2005 to 78% support today.
65+ers went from 18% support in 2005 to 46% support today.

Support has risen by double-digits among all partisan groups, but Democrats and Indies have shifted the most.
60% of GOPers oppose it, with 71% of self-identified conservative Republicans opposing.
Majorities of Democrats, Indies, and every age group under 65 support SSM.

61% oppose allowing states to prohibit SSM, and 62% say states should recognize SSMs registered in other states.

At least 40% "strongly" support SSM.

The Supreme Court is set to hear opening oral arguments on whether state restrictions on SSM are unconstitutional next week, with a decision expected in June.

[TDAS04]

Excellent News.  Nice to see at least couple of issues where Americans have become more progressive so rapidly (LGBT rights and marijuana).

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

that is, the first time in a wapo/abc poll that more than 6 in 10 support. other polling companies have already showed higher results.

[The Other Castro]

I'm just wondering who that 1% is that thinks states should both recognize and prohibit SSM.

[ElectionsGuy]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

[CountryClassSF]

This poll is an outlier - most pollsters find majority support or plurality support, but not this high.  I'm interested in seeing the methodology here.

[publicunofficial]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

Three ways of saying the same thing.

[Ban my account ffs!]

My entire family were converted during that time.  Except my mom and us kids who already knew the right thing to do.

[CountryClassSF]

My entire family were converted during that time.  Except my mom and us kids who already knew the right thing to do.

I think the Bible should guide more than extremist wingerleft media and hollywood

[Cory]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

Ethnic minorities tend to be opposed IIRC.

[Ban my account ffs!]

My entire family were converted during that time.  Except my mom and us kids who already knew the right thing to do.

I think the Bible should guide more than extremist wingerleft media and hollywood

If you insist on using the Bible to guide you, then I'd suggest you stick to Jesus...cuz he's the only way out.  All other roads lead to Rome.

[CountryClassSF]

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And the one way the so called Republicans could reach out to them, they choose to ignore. pathetic.

[Likely Voter]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

Ethnic minorities tend to be opposed IIRC.

Actually majorities of all races are for SSM.but the numbers for whites are a bit higher. Also women are slightly more pro SSM

[Sol]

I remember seeing a poll showing Latinos were actually more supportive than whites.

[Brittain33]

Please don't respond to the parody troll. Thanks.

[Brittain33]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

Ethnic minorities tend to be opposed IIRC.

It shifted significantly starting in 2012. Obama's endorsement likely moved a small but meaningful chunk of people and helped equality win in the Maryland referendum.

[AggregateDemand]

I recoil at the arrogance of heterosexual marital culture. They've gifted themselves many niceties out of the treasury, and now the common American pleb imagines that subjecting homosexuals to superfluous heterosexual regulations is an expansion of equity and privilege.

We need a system of rules that acknowledge the inherent economic and social rights of individuals, regardless of preferred relationship contract. It starts with the tax code and freedom of affiliation, not state-sponsored marriage for everyone.

[Rockefeller GOP]

All demographic groups support it now except conservatives, republicans, and seniors.

Three ways of saying the same thing.

Not really.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

will be interesting to see what the next Gallup poll says; they have the most precise poll wording.

[afleitch]

For the record, support for interracial marriage didn't hit this mark until between 1994 and 1996.

[Beet]

[DemPGH]

Social evolution, in a way. A long, slow, hard process of attitudes adjusting to reality.

[Mr. Illini]

Liberals were for it before it was cool.

[Stranger in a strange land]

But muh backlash...

[RR1997]

It's 2015, guys. Is there still a legitimate argument against gay marriage?