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Republicans are Conservative — but are they this Conservative?

Here are the results from five recent polls on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gay and lesbian soldiers. These are the number of Republican respondents who want the policy overturned....

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New Data on Tea Party Sympathizers

Last week, the ongoing debate over what we know about the tea partiers took a new turn, with scores of conservative commentators like The LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm and Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds...

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Pollster Responds to Your Questions

Because the post I wrote Monday about a new tea party-related poll sparked quite of bit of controversy–not to mention insinuations that either I or the pollster are engaged in “hackery” of some form or...

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Pentagon Spends $4.4 Million to Test Troops’ Gaydar

A $4.4 million Pentagon survey which asks its troops a series of questions about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) has come in for a lot of criticism, mostly related to purported bias in the selection and...

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God, Guns, and Gaydar: The Laws of Probability Push You to Overestimate Small...

Earlier today, Nate criticized a U.S. military survey that asks troops the question, “Do you currently serve with a male or female Service member you believe to be homosexual.” [emphasis added] As Nate...

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Gay Marriage Chart-of-the-Day

Although the past year has been frustrating to liberals and libertarians on many levels, one exception is in the increasing willingness of governments around the world to recognize same-sex marriage,...

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Gay Marriage and Argentine Politics

The Argentine Senate voted 33-27 last Thursday to allow same-sex marriage, making Argentina the first Latin American country to provide full marriage equality. The House of Deputies had already passed...

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Will Gay Marriage, Once Again, Become a Campaign Issue?

In a ruling that had been widely anticipated, Judge Vaughn Walker of the Federal District Court in San Francisco today decided that California’s Proposition 8 — which was narrowly approved by the...

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Kennedy, Olson and the Right Side of History

In the likelihood that Perry v. Schwarzenneger eventually makes its way to the Supreme Court, we know almost for certain that three Justices are going to vote to uphold the lower court’s decision that...

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Opinions on Gay Rights Vary a Lot by State

Nate writes that gay rights “is certainly unlikely to be pushed into the spotlight by Democrats. Most polls still show at least a plurality of Americans opposed to gay marriage, although the margin is...

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Washington’s Muteness on Prop 8 a Sign of Cynicism, Not Progress

Peter King, an idiosyncratic and bellicose Republican Congressmen from Long Island, has been one of the few politicians in either party willing to speak on the record about gay marriage in the wake of...

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CNN Poll is First To Show Majority Support for Gay Marriage

A landmark of sorts was achieved today as CNN just came out with a poll showing a 52 percent majority of Americans agreed with the statement that “gays and lesbians should have a constitutional right...

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Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace

In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by...

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Automated Poll Produces Starkly Different Results on Gay Marriage Question

Not so fast, ladies and ladies (and gentlemen and gentlemen). On the heels of a CNN poll earlier this week which was the first ever to show majority support for gay marriage, Public Policy Polling has...

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The Wild, Conservative West

In 2010, Arizona enacted an immigration law so stringent that the U.S. Supreme Court was forced to intervene. Four years later, the governor had to veto a nearly successful effort to allow businesses...

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Like Bush, Many Republicans Are Moderate on Immigration

The Republican Party has grown more conservative over the past couple of decades. But news commentators sometimes wrongly imply that GOP voters take an extremist position on every issue.As I described...

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Catholics Are More Progressive Than The Vatican, And Almost Everyone Else

Roman Catholic bishops released a draft document this week calling for the church to welcome gays, unmarried couples and people who have divorced. The document is proving to be highly controversial...

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Gay Marriage Is Now Legal In 31 States And For Almost 200 Million Americans

On Friday, Arizona and Alaska became the latest states to allow same-sex marriages, bringing the total number of states with gay marriage up to 31 and the collective population of these states to...

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African-Americans Are An Outlier On Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law

Opinions on Indiana’s new religious freedom law — which critics say would allow businesses to deny services to gays and lesbians — tend to divide demographic groups along the same lines as same-sex...

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Same-Sex Marriage Wins Easily In Ireland

Ireland voted “yes” on gay marriage on Friday, approving a constitutional amendment that made it the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.The amendment was approved 62 percent to...

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