NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, today is touting a new Fox News poll that actually shows a tremendous increase in support of same-sex marriage since just a few months ago.
While practically every major nationwide poll over the past three years has shown majority support for marriage equality, Fox News is using a polling firm that literally days before the November election that President Obama won 51% to 47% returned a 46% to 46% even split:
“Fox News Poll: Race for the White House a dead heat”
Regardless that the Fox News poll may or may not be accurate — even if it shows far less support for equality than most or all major pollsters do — the Fox News poll, conducted by Anderson Robbins Research (D) / Shaw & Company Research (R), shows an even split on marriage: 46% support equality, 46% do not.
NOM doesn’t even bother to link to the poll, perhaps because they know once people see the numbers their fancy headline of “New National Poll: Majority of Tea Party, Majority of GOP, 1/3rd of Democrats Support Marriage!” will mean little.
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So if we accept the possibly suspect findings of the Fox News poll, we also have to accept their previous results.
The poll was conducted February 25-27, and, again, showed a 46% even split.
The previous Anderson/Shaw poll, conducted in October — just four months prior — found overall support at 41%, and overall opposition at 44%.
So, if you believe the Fox News poll, in four months five percent of the U.S. population has decided to support marriage equality.
Wow.
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