Arizona hasn’t produced many competitive elections lately, but it retains a knack for crystallizing the most volatile fault lines in American politics. In 2010, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer’s signing of the stringent anti-immigration measure known as SB 1070 dramatized the colliding worldviews of a Democratic coalition centered on younger minorities […] Read more »
Millennials rising
… The independent Pew Research Center released a major report on the attitudes of the millennial generation last week, and here’s what it found: The millennials are decidedly liberal, especially on social issues such as immigration and same-sex marriage. That helps explain why Obama won their votes by a 16-point […] Read more »
61% of young Republicans favor same-sex marriage
Young people continue to be the strongest proponents of same-sex marriage. And as public support for same-sex marriage continues to grow, the gap between young and old is nowhere more striking than within the Republican coalition. Today, 61% of Republicans and Republican leaners under 30 favor same-sex marriage while just […] Read more »
Support for same-sex marriage hits new high; half say Constitution guarantees right
Half of all Americans believe that gay men and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll in which a large majority also said businesses should not be able to deny serving gays for religious reasons. Fifty percent say the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee […] Read more »
Gay marriage opponents don’t know they’re on the wrong side of public opinion
What happens when a vocal minority thinks it’s a silent majority? According to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, only 41 percent of Americans oppose allowing same-sex couples to marry. But that same 41 percent has a highly skewed perception of where the rest of the country […] Read more »
How To (Reluctantly) Accept Marriage Equality
“I was against same-sex marriage until I noticed most voters were for it.” CONT. Brian McFadden, The Strip, New York Times Read more »