Polling Director: Polls Stating Americans Support Gay Marriage Untrustworthy

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[topher]

Tuesday August 17, 2010

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Polling Director: Polls Stating Americans Oppose Gay Marriage Untrustworthy

August 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to Tom Jensen, director of the North-Carolina based Public Policy Polling (PPP), polls finding that a majority of Americans support homosexual "marriage" cannot be trusted because Americans are sometimes hesitant to state their position before a live interviewer who may judge them to be intolerant.

Earlier this month a CNN poll found that 52% of Americans thought that homosexuals should have the constitutional right to marry; 46% said the Constitution should not give that right.

Public Policy Polling's latest survey however, found that 57% of Americans think that same-sex "marriage" should be illegal, while only 33% think it should be legal and 11% have no opinion.

The difference between the two polls, according to Jensen, springs from the fact that CNN and other major polling organizations use live interviewers, while Public Policy Polling uses an automated system.

He said that people are "more likely to tell their true feelings on an automated poll, where there's no social anxiety concern, than to a live interviewer who they may be worried about the reaction of."

"It is frankly impossible," he continued, "based on the results of gay marriage referendums over the last decade, to believe that a majority of Americans support its legalization."

Gay marriage has been rejected by all the 31 U.S. states where it was put to a vote.  Public Policy Polling was the only polling company that correctly predicted that Maine citizens would overturn a "gay marriage" law last year.

"Dark blue states like California and Maine voted against it just in the last two years," pointed out Jensen. "Obama states like Wisconsin and Virginia rejected it by 14 and 18 points margins in 2006 and red states like South Carolina and Tennessee did so by 56 and 62 point margins."

Jensen nevertheless said that the "the numbers are moving in the right direction for gay marriage proponents, if slowly."

Voters under 30 opposed homosexual "marriage" 52% to 44%, according to the poll.

Over half of Americans thought that it would be legal 20 years from now, however.  Proponents of gay “marriage” were very optimistic - 96% of them thought that it would be legal by 2030, while only 1% thought it would not be.

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[topher]

Basically, people are afraid to state their true views on this.

I guess it is the result of people being programmed to think politically correct...

This is a sort of programming alert article on the result of political correctness and the damage it does to our society (people being afraid to express their true feelings on topics).

[himno hero]

try this one...
dear polling director...go get a gay union!

[albie]

People ARE afraid of stating their true views. Americans are afraid of their own shadows thanks to political correctness. This past week, at my family reunion, my extended family (mostly from New England) gave a collective gasp when I referred to someone as “black”!

[sickoflibs]

RE :” Earlier this month a CNN poll found that 52% of Americans thought that homosexuals should have the constitutional right to marry; 46% said the Constitution should not give that right. Public Policy Polling’s latest survey however, found that 57% of Americans think that same-sex “marriage” should be illegal, while only 33% think it should be legal and 11% have no opinion. The difference between the two polls, according to Jensen, springs from the fact that CNN and other major polling organizations use live interviewers, while Public Policy Polling uses an automated system. He said that people are “more likely to tell their true feelings on an automated poll, where there's no social anxiety concern, than to a live interviewer who they may be worried about the reaction of.”

This is pretty funny. Don't want to be judged by that stranger on the phone, do we? Is this the Alvin Green factor?

I don't have trouble answering honestly if I pick up the phone. “How the %#$@ did you get my number?”

[Ranger Warrior]

Here are some hard and fast rules regarding polling with regard to this subject. First, the majority of Americans have strong opinions but will not state them for fear of being labeled prejudiced. Secondly, the polls will state one thing, but voting is a private and secure thing, and the outcome of voting is a reality. Thirdly, when Americans start getting condemned for what they think, it’s time to retake this country and restore the U.S. Constitution.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I am reminded of the old joke about being judged by 12 people without brains enough to get out of jury duty ;-)

[maddog55]

Basically, people are afraid to state their true views on this. VERY SAD.

Screw the PC BS and call it like it is. I have NO problems calling it as I see it. If you don’t want an opinion don’t ask.. if you don’t ask I’ll tell you anyway.

Need to start clearing this BS up starting at birth or kids grow up and become liberals because they can’t think on their own.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Here's some poll results you can trust.. ALL 31 out of 31 states that held referendum in the issue soundly defeated and rejected perverted marriage.. Even the uber-liberal peoples socialist utopia of California.. LMAO

[rbmillerjr]

“Here’s some poll results you can trust.. ALL 31 out of 31 states that held referendum in the issue soundly defeated and rejected perverted marriage.. Even the uber-liberal peoples socialist utopia of California.. LMAO “

You beat me to it but I’m glad because it’s worth repeating.
The people have spoken and each and every time, even in LaLa land out West, the people reject homosexual marriage.

[fwdude]

I’d also like to see the leading, demeaning questions crafted by the homo-mafia. “Are you a homophobe against ‘marriage equality’?”

[fwdude]

Don’t forget the uber-liberal socialist utopia of the Northeast, Maine, where the even more recent vote margin was even wider, 52.9%.