Sunday 23 December 2012

The Sunday Times: Poll!

People support gay marriage by 56% to 36% who are opposed, pretty typical of our previous polling on the subject. There are the same demographic patterns that we've seen in other polling on the subject - women are more supportive of gay marriage than men, and young people are MUCH more supportive than over 60s. Asked if David Cameron should continue with the proposed changes in the face of opposition from some Conservative MPs the figures were very similar - 51% think he should continue regardless, 36% think he should abandon the policy.
There is very little perception that supporting gay marriage will help the Conservatives electorally. Only 9% think it will help them, 17% damage them, 66% think it will make no difference (needless to say, people's perception of whether it will help or hurt the Conservatives is not necessarily the same as whether it will. Polling on how policies directly affect voting intention is extremely dubious, but what there is suggests it is very much a case of swings and roundabouts - they lose about the same as they gain).
Asked how they would react to their own son or daughter being gay, 63% of people say they would be very or fairly comfortable with it. 17% say they would be fairly uncomfortable, 8% very uncomfortable. 

The Times.

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