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Poll: Voters Less Likely To Support Anti-Gay Candidates | A plurality of Americans — 42 percent — say they would be less likely to elect a presidential candidate who favors a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, an ABC News/Washington Post poll shows. Just 25 percent of respondents claimed they would be more likely to support an anti-gay candidate:
Thirty-eight percent of Republican-leaning voters said they would be more willing to support this candidate, while those preferences flipped for Democrats and independents, with 47 percent against the anti-gay platform. Interestingly, just 3 percent of Republican respondents said social issues were the most important issue affecting their vote.
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