On a day when Minnesotans around the state are gathering for One Day United parties to continue the conversation and raise funds to defeat the mean-spirited marriage amendment, the Star Tribune has provided a much-needed boost of hope into the discussion.
This morning, the Tribune published a poll they conducted from September 17-19. In it, amendment supporters still lead opponents by 2 percentage points, however, they fall short of the needed majority to pass the amendment by ONE small percentage point.
But let’s not break out the bubbly quite yet. There are still 4% of respondents who are undecided and the poll has a +/-3.5 margin of sampling error. If other states are any indication, “yes” voters are usually under-represented in polling by several percentage points.
Not only that, but the other side hasn’t started to bombard the airwaves and internet with their scare tactics – a strategy that has proven effective in every single state where these amendments have passed.
Today’s polling should call each and every single one of us to take action. We are so very close and the numbers continue to move in our favor. Whether you can donate some time calling potential voters, talk to coworkers and friends about why you’re voting no or put a yard sign up to proclaim your stance – all of these things are helping.
With defeat of this anti-marriage amendment so close, we cannot afford to stop now. Thank you to everyone that has stood One Day United today. May we continue to encourage the conversation right up until election day.
Together, we can defeat this. Stand with me, Minnesota and let’s tell the world that we are voting NO!
Note: For detailed polling breakdown data, check out this link.
patti skinner
/ October 9, 2012why are some churches and some people say that God made marriage for a man and woman.. God didn’t make marriage. We made marriage as a legal contract that has to be signed in-order to be considered married.. In biblical days, man and woman knew each other and that is about getting together and having children. I think the marriage act and laws that it allows us came alot later… We can’t have laws that only some of the adult population can enjoy, and not others…Some people have chosen to make their commitments in a religious atmosphere and some don’t.. They are all going after the legal paper to sign so they can enjoy legal rights.. Let the religious part be left to each two people that want to choose that as to where they make the legal commitment. I want to hear people for choice about marriage, touch only on the legal privliges that the commitment gives us.. thank you, Patti
patti skinner
/ October 9, 2012why is it that some people think they have the right to tell others what privleges they can partake in? I have the right to decide what goes on in and to my body as a woman, and no law should or person should have the right to interfere with that. I have the right to partake in the same legal rights as all others under the title of the word marriage. You can call a union between any two people anything you want and it can be done in a variety of places, but it is still all about the legal rights it brings with it… Otherwise we could just go into any church and they could marry us, and omit any legal paper to sign, and file within the courthouse. thank you, Patti