Posted on 05/07/2012 7:09:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A final poll of likely North Carolina voters conducted over the weekend continues to give a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions an easy margin of victory in Tuesday’s election while the Democratic contest for governor is tightening.
The referendum holds a 16-point advantage, 55 percent in favor and 39 percent against, according to the Public Policy Polling survey, a left-leaning Raleigh-based firm. The numbers shifted little in the final week as big-names on either side of the debate – Rev. Billy Graham for and former President Bill Clinton against – made final pleas to persuade voters.
Many voters still don’t understand what the amendment would accomplish, pollster Tom Jensen said, noting that a majority of North Carolinians support some legal recognition for same-sex couples. “Opponents of the amendment had an uphill battle in convincing voters that it was anything other than a referendum on gay marriage, even though it does go a lot further than that” by forbidding civil unions and domestic partnerships, he said.
Jensen, whose firm worked for the anti-amendment campaign, believes the vote could get even more support, possibly as high as 59 percent. The vote brought a half-million people to the polls to vote early, exceeding even the huge jump in voting for the 2008 Democratic presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In the Democratic gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton’s 10-point lead from a week ago whittled down to a 5-point advantage in the final days. The polls showed Dalton getting about 34 percent of the vote and rival Bob Etheridge taking 29 percent. Four other candidates all received 4 percent or less.
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Might it have been better to have this on the ballot in November instead of now? I’d have preferred passing this during the general election as a means of turning out more conservatives and Republicans to defeat Hussein.
Having followed the progress of this amendment process for a while, I'll tell you that that was original plan, for a vote in the general election. Only, the Democrat sodomite supporters cried foul, knowing that the amendment would be a tidal wave of success with the votes against Obama (and FOR Obama, incidentally, since blacks vote for Obama and against counterfeit marriage.) And so, holding the ballot amendment initiative during the primaries was a concession to the Left due to the screeching protests of the liberal legislators.
Now, they're not happy with the current situation, either.
You can never please a Leftist. They are congenitally angry.
Thank you for that information. I had a feeling it probably played out along those lines.
You could be right...it may well have been *better*.But it’s still pretty good,IMO.I’d be surprised if we didn’t take NC in Nov.
I know it's North Carolina and not California, but homos are homos. At least NC is a 2nd Amendment honoring state.
No worries. A leftist district court will declare it unconstitutional.
And homosexuals already HAVE all the legal rights that they're entitled to - no one is preventing them from entering into contracts binding on only the individuals involved. What ADDITIONAL "rights" do you think they should be given?
The leftist aka progressive perverted homosexual are demanding what? Equality? They already have it.
They don’t want marriage. They want approval.
I’ve been smacking around my liberal/gay friends on Facebook. I’ll have to hide tomorrow because they are going to have grand mal hissy fit if this thing passes big. They’ll be threatening to leave the state, stop spending money, the whole bit.
I did tell them I would drop by to congratulate them on living in the “Hate State”.
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