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Monday, December 01
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In January of 2008, Andrew Francis, an assistant economics professor at Emory University, released a paper in which he sought to apply analysis to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (”Add Health”). His results are published...
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Monday, November 24
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I’m not a big fan of SurveyUSA. I’ll give them credit for being the only survey firm to give consistently gloomy projections about Prop 8, but I’m not convinced that this is indicative of their greater polling abilities. Nevertheless...
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Thursday, November 13
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In April 2007, anti-gay “researcher” Paul Cameron and his son Kirk sent out a press release claiming that studied information from Denmark that proved that gay men died on average 20 years younger than their heterosexual counterparts...
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Wednesday, November 12
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Was the passage of Prop. 8 always a foregone conclusion, despite poll results throughout the summer and early fall showing most likely voters opposed it?
Or were the major polls correct, and the sentiment of California voters actually shifted in...
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Saturday, November 08
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Those persons who were willing to identify as gay or lesbian to exil pollsters remained constant in 2008 at 4%. That translates to roughly five million voters.
This percentage is consistent with exit polling in 2004 and 2000. Read more...
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Saturday, November 08
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One of the lessons learned in the vote on Proposition 8 is that black and hispanic voters did not support marriage equality. Because of the inexact nature of exit polling, and because of the rounding of percentages, it is difficult to state anything...
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Monday, November 03
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SurveyUSA has been polling discouragingly for the past month:
October 6
Yes 47%
No 42%
October 17
Yes 48%
No 45%
Today SurveyUSA released a poll that shows the proposition to be slightly failing.
Yes 47%
No 50%
I don’t place too much faith...
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Friday, October 31
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The Field Poll has been tracking likely voter support for Proposition 8 since equal marriage became legal. Previous polls have been released on May 28, July 18, and September 18. Trends were showing that there was a comfortable advantage to the...
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Thursday, October 23
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Ever since California county clerks began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last June, Proposition 8 - the proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate marriage equality - has appeared likely to lose at the ballot box. Throughout...
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Wednesday, October 22
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At the end of August the Public Policy Institute of California released a survey showing that Proposition 8 was trailing among likely voters by 54% to 40%. A new poll released today shows that while the supporters of Prop 8 have made some progress...
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Friday, October 17
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CBS5 has a new SurveyUSA poll out today and it is not much different from the one released on October 6th.
The poll of 615 likely voters released Friday found that 48 percent favored Proposition 8, while 45 percent planned to vote against the measure...
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Monday, October 06
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A new SurveyUSA poll has a troubling finding:
According to the poll, likely California voters overall now favor passage of Proposition 8 by a five-point margin, 47 percent to 42 percent. Ironically, a CBS 5 poll eleven days prior found a five-point...
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Tuesday, September 09
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The supporters of Proposition 8 have set up a website geared towards youth at iProtectMarriage.com. And perhaps they think that adults are too well informed because they reserve their really crazy homophobic slurs and lies for the kiddies.
It’s...
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Thursday, August 28
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The Public Policy Institute of California released a poll yesterday showing that Proposition 8 continues to have limited appeal.
Proposition 8, which would amend the state Constitution to allow marriage only between a man and a woman, is trailing...
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Tuesday, August 19
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When Michael Cain was denied the ability to donate blood to Australia’s supply because he had been in a same-sex relationship, he decided to sue. He is claiming that standards should rely upon whether the person engages in unsafe sex practices...
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Tuesday, August 19
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In August 2007, Garden State Equality commissioned a poll from Zogby International to enquire about attitudes of New Jersey residents regarding same-sex marriage. They found that converting civil unions to marriage was acceptable to New Jerseyans...
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Friday, August 15
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In June we noticed that Insure.com, an online insurance broker, was making false and defamatory statements about gay men in two of his articles. Specifically, the articles - which were written by Insure.com staff - relied on a non-representative...
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Friday, August 01
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We commented earlier on an article in AFA’s OneNewsNow in which Regina Griggs displayed astonishing ignorance about the HIV infection rates of gay youth. Now the editors at AFA have amended the article
Over 70 percent of young kids 13- to...
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Thursday, July 31
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Anti-gays often seek to portray all gay persons as diseased. There is a presumption that HIV/AIDS is an automatic consequence of “homosexual behavior” and that all gay persons (gay men in particular) are contagious and dangerous.
Just...
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Friday, July 11
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Earlier today we reported that we have been trying for over a month to get Insure.com to remove false and defamatory articles from their website. Specifically, the articles - which were written by Insure.com staff - rely on a non-representative...
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Wednesday, June 04
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In the wake of the California Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality, there have been several polls attempting to measure the reaction of the state’s citizens. They have had conflicting results.
An LA Times poll reported May 23...
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Wednesday, May 21
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Every year the Gallup Group takes a poll on what Americans think is moral and immoral. Since 2001, homosexuality has been on the list. For the first time, Americans are evenly split, with 48% saying that it is morally acceptable and 48% saying it...
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