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50% according to the CNN  poll

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The New York Times, Week in Review section, discusses the CNN poll that details about 50% Americans nationwide support same-sex marriage.  In 1994-96, only around 25% Americans nationwide supported marriage for us.

Thus in 15 years we've only gained an additional 25% support. Continuing the same pace: in 2025,  will 75% Americans nationwide support same-sex marriage, we inquire?

Anywayz... it is too early for all this math and statistics on a Sunday morn......  We'll crunch the numbers tomorrow.

The paper reports (and it is multimedia, so the reader can interact and find things out state-by-state):

In 2008, the year Proposition 8 was approved, just under half of Californians supported same-sex marriage,. Today, according to polls, more than half do. A similar shift has occurred in Maine, where same-sex marriage legislation was repealed by ballot measure in 2009.

In both New York and New Jersey, where state legislatures in the past have defeated proposals to allow same-sex marriage, a majority now support it.

And support for same-sex marriage has increased in all states, even in relatively conservative places like Wyoming and Kentucky. Only Utah is still below where national support stood in 1996.

Among the five states that currently allow same-sex marriage, Iowa is the outlier. It is the only one of those states where support falls below half, at 44 percent.