Month: March 2013

New Poll Shows Dramatic Shift in Views on Marriage Equality

Trish

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that American attitudes toward marriage equality have turned upside down in the past 10 years — and then some. Where a decade ago 55 percent of registered voters said gay adults should be excluded from marriage to the fellow adult they love, today 58 percent say they should not.

And it’s not a case of “state’s rights.”

Most Americans, moreover, say the U.S. Constitution should trump state laws on gay marriage, a question now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Almost twice as many young people support marriage equality, with 81 percent of those under 30 favoring the concept, and even 44 percent of seniors…unless they’re Republicans. Only 34 percent of Republicans of any age condemn discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans in the area of marriage to consenting adults.

Most Religious Americans Support Path to Citizenship

Buck Banks

70%-plus

Of Hispanic Catholics, Hispanics Protestants and black Protestants support a pathway to citizenship. Additionally, more than half of all Jewish Americans (67%), Mormons (63%), white Catholics (62%), white mainline Protestants (61%) and white evangelical Protestants (56%) supported the inclusive immigration policy, according to a new Public Religion Research Institute survey.

DNC Deep in Debt

Buck Banks

$21.9 million

Amount of the Democratic National Committee’s total obligations at the end of February, up from $20.6 million in debt as of Nov. 26. In addition to taking on more debt, the committee has seen its cash on hand reduced by more than half since Nov. 26, from $9.7 million to just more than $4 million, according to the Washington Post.