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GALLUP: Americans Split On “Born Gay”

Via Gallup: In a year when the movement for same-sex marriages continues to make strides across the U.S., Americans remain divided on how people come to be gay or lesbian. More than a third of Americans (37%) believe people become gay as a result of factors such as their upbringing and environment, while 42% say people are born gay. This …

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GALLUP: 55% Back Gay Marriage

Gallup reports: Americans’ support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%. Marriage equality advocates have had a string of legal successes over the past year, most recently this week in Pennsylvania and Oregon where federal judges struck down bans on gay marriage. Two successive Gallup polls in 2012 saw support climb …

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Majority Support For Legalized Pot

Gallup reports: For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. And now for the first time, a clear majority of Americans (58%) say the drug should be legalized. This is in sharp contrast to the time Gallup first asked the …

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New Gallup Poll On Russia

Source. Image by Memeographs.

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National Gallup Poll: 52% Back Marriage

Gallup reports that if a national referendum on same-sex marriage were held in November, a slim majority of Americans would back it. Across the nation’s major demographic, political, and religious groups, support for the proposed law ranges from as high as 77% among self-described liberal Americans, and 76% among those with no religious affiliation, to as low as 23% among …

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Gallup Poll On Sexual Orientation

Gallup today released more details on the poll first published earlier this week: Currently, 47% of Americans view being gay or lesbian as a sexual orientation individuals are born with, while 33% instead believe it is due to external factors such as upbringing or environment. That 14-percentage-point gap in favor of “nature” over “nurture” is the largest Gallup has measured …

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New Gallup Marriage Poll

Gallup reports: Fifty-three percent of Americans say the law should recognize same-sex marriages, the third consecutive reading of 50% or above in Gallup polling over the past year. The 53% in favor ties the high to this point, also measured last November and in May 2011. Gallup’s May 2-7 poll suggests Americans’ support for gay marriage is solidifying above the …

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Gallup’s LGBT Survey: Colorized

Somebody over at Buzzfeed colorized Gallup’s survey.

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Gallup Ranks Gayest States

Gallup today issued the results of a poll conducted last year in which they asked over 200,000 people if they “personally identify” as LGBT.   As with all such self-disclosure surveys, the numbers are somewhat skewed by those who decline to out themselves to pollsters. The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) ranges from …

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Gallup Poll: Religiosity By State

Gallup recaps their findings: Overall, 40% of Americans nationwide were classified as very religious in 2012 — based on saying religion is an important part of their daily life and that they attend religious services every week or almost every week. Thirty-one percent of Americans were nonreligious, saying religion is not an important part of their daily life and that …

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New Gallup Poll On LGBT Issues

Gallup reports: While 53% of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage, significantly higher percentages support the idea of equal rights for partners or spouses of gays or lesbians when it comes to inheritance rights and employee benefits, and making it legal for gays and lesbians to adopt children. Support for all three issues is up at least slightly from three years …

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Peter Sprigg: The Rise In Out Gays Disproves The Gay Gene Theory

“There has been a significant growth in the number of women who identify as lesbian, bisexual or transgender — a much larger growth than the number of men. In 1994, there were twice as many homosexual men as women, but now homosexual women actually outnumber the homosexual men. During that time span, the number of homosexual men has increased by …

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Gallup Takes A Swipe At Nate Silver

Last week Nate Silver ranked Gallup as the worst polling firm when it came to accurately predicting the 2012 election results. Gallup’s editor fired back on Friday. We have a reverse law of the commons with polls. It’s not easy nor cheap to conduct traditional random sample polls. It’s much easier, cheaper, and mostly less risky to focus on aggregating …

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GALLUP: Gays May Swing The Election

An interesting note from Gallup: A new Gallup Report finds that 71% of LGBT Americans who are registered voters support President Obama for reelection, while 22% support Governor Mitt Romney. From June to September, non-LGBT registered voters preferred Romney to Obama by one percentage point, 47% to 46%. However, when LGBT voters are added to electorate, Obama moves slightly ahead …

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GALLUP: Public Split On SCOTUS Ruling

Right down the middle and along party lines. Source.

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GALLUP: Romney Inches Ahead

It’s still a statistical tie, though. Details.

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GALLUP POLL: 46% Of Americans Are Young Earth Creationists

Gallup poll: Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question. About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, …

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Gallup: Gay Is The New Normal

Gallup reports today: The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Public acceptance of gay/lesbian relations as morally acceptable grew slowly but steadily from 38% in 2002 to 56% in 2011 and is now holding at the majority level. This Gallup trend mirrors the growth in public support for legalizing gay marriage, which has …

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Gallup Asks About Obama’s Evolution

Reacting swiftly to the president’s announcement, Gallup has already done a random poll of 1000 adults reached by phone. More than half of Americans say they approve of President Obama’s stance that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry legally, but 60% say that his shift in position will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election, …

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