It’s tough being a Republican presidential hopeful these days. The GOP’s hard-core conservative base vociferously opposes same-sex marriage, but American voters overall support it. More than one-third think they’d be less likely to vote for a candidate who opposed gay marriage, according to a new poll.
Last week, independent polling firm Zogby Analytics conducted a national survey for The Huffington Post examining how likely voters would respond if a GOP candidate signed a statement that he or she opposed same-sex marriage. Almost 35 percent said they would be somewhat or much less likely to vote for the candidate. Over 31 percent said they’d be somewhat or much more likely to support the candidate, and about 34 percent said it would make no difference or they weren’t sure.
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“Let me be as clear as I can,” Brian S. Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, wrote in a fundraising plea this week. “We at NOM will never give up on marriage.”
Zogby Analytics surveyed 890 likely voters online from Jan. 16 to 18.
