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...Court’s decision is that a majority of Californians do not approve of same-sex marriage, as evidenced by a 2000 ballot measure to recognize only heterosexual marriages. The ideological terrain has shifted since then, however—a July California Field Poll survey found that 51 percent of voters will likely vote against Prop 8. This Tuesday, voters will have the chance to express their opinions; the fact that they have never voted for same sex marriage before is not an argument for why they cannot now. Gay rights are a perennial source of debate in California...
...Surveys have repeatedly demonstrated the colossal ignorance of the average citizen. A 2004 Cato Institute analysis of election surveys found that voters were startlingly unaware of relevant information. For example, in the 2000 National Election Study, the average respondent correctly answered only 14.4 questions out of 31. Only 50 percent correctly identified which party controlled the Senate before the election; only 11 percent of the survey respondents could identify the post held by William Rehnquist, then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Cambridge Election Commission reports that roughly 63,000 of the city’s 100,000 residents are currently registered to vote. The Republican City Committee reports that about 3,500 of the city’s voters, or less than 6 percent, are registered as Republicans...
...years ago, Henry R. Irving, the current chair of the Republican City Committee, ran against Wolf, who has been in office since 1997. He carried only 10 percent of the vote...
...Some political pundits predicted a divide within the Democratic Party, in which Clinton supporters would defect in droves to support Republican nominee John McCain. Initially, this theory seemed to have backing—in a March Gallup poll, 28 percent of Clinton supporters had said they would vote for McCain in a McCain-Obama matchup...