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Majority Favor Same-Sex Marriage in Arizona

A new Rocky Mountain Poll in Arizona finds 55% of voters now favor legalizing same-sex marriage, while just 35% said they are opposed. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

Majority Favor Same-Sex Marriage in Arizona

A new Rocky Mountain Poll in Arizona finds 55% of voters now favor legalizing same-sex marriage, while just 35% said they are opposed. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

US officials: More in favor of arming Syria rebels

WASHINGTON (AP) — Discussions within the Obama administration in favor of providing arms to the Syrian rebels are gaining ground amid new indications that President Bashar Assad's regime may have launched additional chemical weapons attacks, U.S. and other diplomatic officials say. Tweet This Post

The Culture Wars Now Favor Democrats

Ron Brownstein: “For decades after the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Republicans regularly provoked confrontations on a broad array of polarizing noneconomic ‘wedge issues,’ from crime and welfare to immigration and gay rights. Democrats, with a few exceptions, mostly tried through those years to neutralize the debates and quickly pivot back to economic terrain.” Tweet [...]

Majority Favor Legalizing Pot

A new Pew Research poll finds for the first time that a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana, 52% to 45%. Tweet This Post

Virginians Favor Warner for Senate

A new University of Mary Washington poll in Virginia finds Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) leading Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) in a hypothetical 2014 match up for U.S. Senate, 51% to 35%. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

RNC Recommendations Favor Deep-Pocketed Candidate

Tucked in near the end of the 97-page autopsy “are less than four pages that amount to a political bombshell: the five-member panel urges halving the number of presidential primary debates in 2016 from 2012, creating a regional primary cluster after the traditional early states and holding primaries rather than caucuses or conventions,” Politico reports. [...]

Americans Favor Obama Over GOP on Most Issues

A new USA Today/Pew Research poll finds President Obama “starts his second term with a clear upper hand over GOP leaders on issues from guns to immigration that are likely to dominate the year. On the legislation rated most urgent — cutting the budget deficit — even a majority of Republican voters endorse Obama’s approach [...]