Friday, November 09, 2007

Details of new ENDA poll - 16% favor position of United ENDA


I finally got the details on the new poll showing that nearly 70% of gays support moving ahead with ENDA even if it doesn't include gender identity, whereas only 16% of gays support United ENDA's position of killing ENDA until transgender people can be included too. You can read the details in the attached 3 page memo (click the image), but one thing the memo doesn't include, and I got the answer from HRC (which got it from the polling firm) is that the margin of error is +/- 5%, which is pretty good for a poll of gay people (polls of gays are notoriously difficult because we don't know how many members of our community are closeted, so it's hard to do a fair sample since you can only sample those who are willing to be identified as gay). Having said that, this is important data because up until now there was no real data as to how the community itself, rather than activists, felt about the issue. Now we know. And when the number is nearing 70%, in our community, where divisiveness nears a virtue, that's a pretty large mandate.

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