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标 题: Florida's Black Voters Show Big Shift on Marriage
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jun 10 18:43:05 2012, 美东)
What a polling firm calls "the Obama effect" continues among black voters;
this time, with a dramatic 48-point swing in Florida.
In September, Public Policy Polling found just 23% of Florida black voters
supported marriage equality. Now not only do black voters support marriage
equality, they favor it by a wide margin, 49% to 31%. It wasn't enough,
though, to turn the entire state in favor of marriage with voters as a whole
still opposed 45% to 42%.
PPP has identified a national trend of support shifting at the state level.
First in North Carolina, 44% of African-Americans supported either marriage
or civil unions just before a vote in May on Amendment One. That number shot
up to 55% with opposition also falling drastically just days after
President Obama announced his support.
Then in Maryland PPP pollster Tom Jensen said the firm had found a “major
shift in opinion” among African-American voters, who a poll in May showed
support the state's marriage equality law by 55% to 36%. The numbers had
essentially flipped since March.
The NAACP and a host of prominent black pop-culture figures have come out
for marraige equality since, spurring on a conversation about a topic that
had once remained largely untouched. |
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