[Steve_Seattle]

"A rather surprising hint as to how fast the social and political winds have shifted."

Possibly, but this poll has a bad smell. Most recent polls have shown that about 50-53% of Americans support gay marriage, and for this poll to be accurate more than half of those people would need to be Republicans. I don't buy it. This sounds like a poll intended to keep conservatives from voting.

[BrandonS]

That math doesn’t make any sense. This chart says that 45% of republican voters are at least somewhat in favor of gay marriage. If we take your numbers and say even 53% of the total population is, then to get an average of 53% with republicans at 45%, we would need democrats to be at 61%, which certainly seems more than plausible (if we assume the population is split evenly by party for simplicity).

I don’t know where you got the idea that a chart showing 45% equates to “more than half”.