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The article's conclusions include:
Support for gay marriage comes primarily from Democrat's, those under 35 years of age, people with post-graduate educations, and those with no religious affiliation. Republicans are more likely to oppose gay marriage. Protestants were split on the issue, and Catholics opposed legalized gay marriage by 49-44 percent, within the margin of error.The following results are for the same-sex-marriage set. I have paraphrased the much longer questions.
(Andrew E. Smith, the UNH center’s director) said that the strong support from the 18-to-34-year-old age group shows that controversy over gay marriage will fade as older people who tend to oppose gay marriage begin to due.
SHOULD SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
YES | NO | DON'T KNOW | |
OVERALL | 56 | 37 | 7 |
PARTY AFFILIATION | |||
Democrat | 63 | 32 | 5 |
Republican | 39 | 56 | 5 |
Undeclared | 52 | 40 | 8 |
GENDER | |||
Female | 60 | 33 | 6 |
Male | 51 | 41 | 7 |
AGE | |||
18-34 | 71 | 26 | 3 |
35-49 | 53 | 37 | 10 |
50-64 | 57 | 37 | 5 |
65= | 42 | 52 | 6 |
RELIGION | |||
Protestant | 47 | 47 | 6 |
Roman Catholic | 49 | 44 | 7 |
Other | 60 | 35 | 5 |
None | 80 | 12 | 8 |
POTENTIAL 2006 SAME-SEX BALLOT QUESTION
YES | NO | DON'T KNOW | |
Should question be on ballot? | 54 | 41 | 5 |
Would you vote for it? | 45 | 45 | 10 |
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