[Lucky Dog]

Here's a reason to distrust this poll:

From the article: The poll is based on a telephone survey of 1,052 registered voters taken May 17-26. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

The poll was not a true random sampling of the population. What about those who were not home for the phone call, those who refused to be interviewed, those who are on the "do-not-call" list, those who refused to take the poll, etc.

Finally, there is the "loaded question" type of poll... as in "do you think innocent people should be executed?" Poll results: 99% of people oppose capital punishment. Notice that the article did not include samples of the questions that were asked

[goldstategop]

Do you favor or oppose "marriage equality?" That's in the same league as "have you stopped beating your wife today?" The results are predictable.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[longtermmemmory]

I don’t think the don-not-call list affects polling or political speech so all would be called.

This does not include cell phone calls and people who have no land line. Nor does it indentify time of day or day of week.

did they oversample democrats again? I wonder how the pro-homo vote breaks down within republicans and within democrats.

It has no credibility. Even in the ONE state that a defense of marriage amendment lost is lost due to wording games played by democrats.

[InsensitiveConservative]

Exactly. My brother-in-law agreed to particiapte in a telephone survey. The first question was ‘do you agree President Bush is doing a good job?’ He answered with a yes ... the guy conducting the poll said ‘Oh nobody is home here’ and slammed down the phone.

Never trust a telephon survey.