Democrat-leaning Public Policy Polling -- which is based in North Carolina -- is doing its best to claim momentum is shifting against the Marriage Amendment.
Their most recent poll has voters favoring the amendment 54-40-6 while last month they found support at 58-38-4.
Getting into the weeds of the most recent poll, it appears to oversampled female, Democratic and young voters (compared to who is actually voting so far).
Our experience time and time again is that marriage under-performs when polled compared to how people actually vote when granted the privacy of a voting booth.
As we wrote in our fundraising email this week, final victory in North Carolina, like every victory for marriage, will be dependent on how many resources (human and financial) we are able to gather for communicating our message to voters and encouraging them to vote!
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The PC/homosexual Nazis force us to hide our true beliefs until we get into the voting booth, the only place where they can't smoke us out and attack us.
The same poll which NOM references indicates a clear majority of North Carolina voters favor either marriage or civil unions for gay people. What's more, when asked if the proposed amendment bars both (which, incidentally, it does) they are against it, so it's not the marriage equality side that needs to rely on voter confusion.
Strength of State Statue alone
Andersen v. King County and oral arguments were heard by the Washington Supreme Court on March 8, 2005. The ruling, a 5-4 decision that upheld the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), was handed down on July 26, 2006. The majority ruled that the DOMA does not violate the state’s constitution and that the will of the legislature or the people (through a ballot initiative measure process) could revoke the controversial law.
Here in Washington state the statue banning same sex marriage has given way to Legislative action, not by a direct vote of the people. We as citizens are now faced with having to reaffirm the original state statue and cause the ban to become part of the State Constitution to prevent such legislative activism in the future.