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FAU poll finds Florida abortion, marijuana amendments on verge of enough support for passage
MSN.com ^ | October 29, 2024 | Anthony Man, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Posted on 10/29/2024 3:26:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution dealing with abortion rights and recreational marijuana are close to passage, a Florida Atlantic University poll released Tuesday found, but both are right on the edge.

Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution, has support of 58% of Florida voters, with 32% opposed and 11% saying they don’t know.

Though that’s a strong majority, it’s just short of the 60% threshold Florida requires for passage of a constitutional amendment. Winning would require a relatively small share of those who said they still don’t know how they’ll vote to hit 60% — if those voters go all the way through the ballot to the proposed amendments.

Amendment 3, which would legalize recreational marijuana for adults, is faring marginally better.

FAU’s poll found 60% of voters favoring the marijuana amendment, with 34% opposed and 6% undecided.

Fierce campaigns are being waged on both sides of both amendments, as anyone who flips on local TV news and sees the barrage of pro and con ads can attest.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading the opposition to both, hoping he can show voters nationwide that he can prevail on major issues in his home state. He’s marshaled the opposition, including spending state government money on advertising opposing the amendments.

Kevin Wagner, an FAU political scientist, said neither amendment is a sure thing. If a simple majority of 50% plus one was all that was required for passage, he said they’d be sure things.

Wagner is also co-director of FAU’s PolCom Lab, a collaboration of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies and Department of Political Science, which conducted the poll.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: abortion; amendment3; amendment4; amendments; childsacrifice; desantis; dope; florida; legalization; marijuana; poll; polls; stoners
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Article has more details on the numbers and the breakdown (men vs. women, Dems vs. GOP vs. Independents).
1 posted on 10/29/2024 3:26:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Joe Brower

Many Floridians apparently want to know what it’s like to be Marylanders.


2 posted on 10/29/2024 3:27:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How would they know? If it’s exit polls then BS.

Exit polls are for morons.


3 posted on 10/29/2024 3:29:02 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Turn out the lights, the election is over. Trump 47.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The most important thing to morons is butchering babies and getting high. How sick our nation is.


4 posted on 10/29/2024 3:33:26 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: LibertyWoman

The people working to destroy the nation know what works. Americans, it seems, not so much.


5 posted on 10/29/2024 3:40:08 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

YES on 3
NO on 4


6 posted on 10/29/2024 3:45:02 PM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Amazingly easy to vote to murder innocents who have no voice, when you’re voting for extermination that can never happen to you. All with a scoured conscience.

Demons;
Every human who supports this genocide.


7 posted on 10/29/2024 3:45:58 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Marijuana wins easy, abortion loses.

The Panhandle is loaded with CBD/Delta-whatever shops, in the most conservative counties.

8 posted on 10/29/2024 3:46:41 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So, it only takes a couple percentage points more of the votes to deprice the abortion amendment the 60% threshold it needs.

I actually do not like “popular” (referendum style) amendments to Constitutions - they garner more (too many) less-well informed voters. I remind everyone the original U.S, Constitution was not ratified by a “national popular” vote. It was approved by the legislatures of the states. I also remind everyone when these “popular referendum” style state constitutional amendment methods arose: it was during the “Progressive era”. I do prefer a 60% threshold - in the legislative chambers.


9 posted on 10/29/2024 3:48:46 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I am afraid many will fall for the liberal lefty wording of Amendment 4. It is totally against the SCOTUS ruling without a doubt. But they’ve worded it so it seems like abortion on demand would be between you and your physician. The average American giving it a quick read would think that too. BUT the words are “your healthcare provider”... meaning abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood, Abortion for Profit the older the fetus the better, for the abortionist.


10 posted on 10/29/2024 3:52:12 PM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

RAT politicians. Passing bills to make their constituents just a little more retarded.


11 posted on 10/29/2024 3:54:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Tell the "Government" to let all their political prisoners go, NOW!)
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To: Wuli

I believe that a legislative supermajority in Florida is a 3/5 vote, just like in Maryland, so that should be a comfortable threshold for passing an Amendment in each house of the legislature. Then, for ratification, you can have a popular vote, but broken down by counties: if 2/3 of counties (45 out of 67) support the Amendment, then it is considered ratified.


12 posted on 10/29/2024 3:54:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Fledermaus

Re: 3 - LOL.

You not liking exit polls seems to based on… what?


13 posted on 10/29/2024 3:57:13 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: ShawnShawntheLeprecaun

Yep: Any nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant, or other person charged with tending to your health, fixing medical problems and writing prescriptions can perform the “surgery.”


14 posted on 10/29/2024 3:57:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ShawnShawntheLeprecaun

Also, the Amendment apparently says something to the effect that its provisions won’t nullify Florida’s Constitutional right to require parental notification. That one flew over my head, because, as I was informed later, that’s not CONSENT.


15 posted on 10/29/2024 3:59:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In the last election democrats backed off voting (they ran Charlie Crist) on purpose because they wanted to elevate RDS in order to get rid of Trump.

Those people are going to vote this time and people may not like the outcome on these issues.


16 posted on 10/29/2024 4:05:25 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Florida Atlantic University

Probably not that reliable of a polling outfit.

17 posted on 10/29/2024 4:08:03 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We voted no on 3and 4.


18 posted on 10/29/2024 4:08:40 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Z28.310

Yet the Grand Ole Planned Parenthood Party is for it also. Men who support any abortion are incredibly creepy.
Wait until they return incest and rape to the states. Why not??
Nothing stopping them from decriminalizing everything under federal law. Except prob tax evasion.


19 posted on 10/29/2024 4:08:56 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Garbage FLLefty poll firm .
Had Rubio deadlocked .
Only The Black N FL Community College Polls are worse .


20 posted on 10/29/2024 4:10:16 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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