Politicians Are Afraid of Voters
So, Reuters is trying to say that Californians support gay-marriage now with a poll conducted after the court decided to take matters into their own hands and tell everyone how it's going to be done, but let's take a slightly closer look at the article, since the majority of people don't read more than the headlines:
The Field Poll survey found 51 percent against approving a possible November ballot measure to prohibit gay marriage, with 43 percent in favor. A slightly differently worded question on the same issue found 54 percent opposed and 40 percent in favor.
The ultimate in obscurity. Even though they claim the majority of voters are against banning same-sex marriage, 51 and 43 percent is still incredibly close. (Wouldn't you say even enough for several recounts? I think that happened once before... I think it was in Florida? I think the Democrats wanted it? Oh yes, that's because they couldn't accept Al Gore lost. Point is, when things are the majority in their favor, even by such a close margin, they like to act like it's a clean-cut majority when it's not.) But let's see what they wrote at the very end of the article:
The poll of 1,052 registered Californian voters was taken from May 17-26, in the days after California Supreme Court decision, and had a sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points to 5 percentage points, depending on the question.
Read that slowly. Slightly over 1000 voters took the poll and there is a 3 to 5 percent variation. That could make the first question more apart at 56 against to 37 for, or closer at 45 against to 49 for. The second question could be 60 against to 34 for, or 48 against and 46 for. Now, they also polled merely 1000 voters. Do you know how many people live in California? According to Wikipedia, it is the single most populated state in the country, with a year 2007 estimate of 36.5 MILLION. I realize that, obviously, not every one of those 36 million people is a registered voter, but I'm willing to bet that it's far, far, far above 1000. I also think it's odd how, once again, they didn't bother reporting the "wording" of the questions after they made such big deal about it, wouldn't you agree? Don't you think that if it helped support their claim that they would let you know exactly what it said?
Once again, they also mention how the longer they wait, the more people are apt to vote against a same-sex marriage ban. If the media has these numbers, you can bet that the politicians do, too. I think it's obvious that the reason the liberals don't let this come up for a vote is because they think if they wait, eventually, a clear majority will be against the ban, and everything will be happy. But, until then, they're quite content with going against the wishes of the voters who put them in office by not allowing their Constitutional amendment to go up for a public vote when the VOTERS want it to. Instead, they release useless little polls to show that voters do actually want to allow same-sex marriage in an effort to somehow justify what they're doing.
Hey, if they think it's worthy enough to declare the state wants to allow same-sex marriage by using an irrelevant poll, I think they should put their money where their mouth is and let it go to a vote! Surely if the unbiased and objective mainstream media sees fit to report that the majority of Californians oppose banning same-sex marriage, then it MUST be true! I say let it go to a vote if you think it's so obvious that people are going to vote it down... Just think, if people get to vote on it and it doesn't get passed, you'll have far more proof that people want it than by just showing off a random poll.
But we all know they're afraid the voters will actually get what THEY want.