I don't think that the polling research/voting difference is all that surprising. It is the inherent problem with pre-election/referendum surveys. When people answer a survey, there is no consequence for expressing one's opinion anonymously other than the results of a survey being reported by media. But, other than that, people who take the survey realize it's meaningless. It's not that respondents intentionally lie or don't express how they feel, but people know that stating an opinion on a survey doesn't elect anyone or set policy. But when they get in that voting booth - its for real and their opinions are often colored by some sense/apprehension of what is going to happen as a result of their vote - and that mental process can and does change votes, often confounding the pundits. This mental process often means people vote for familiarity rather than change that they may actually believe in but be afraid of.
This is why those polls can sometimes be poor vote predictors.
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NEW YORK -- Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
It's possible the streak could end in November, when Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state are likely to have closely contested gay marriage measures on their ballots.
For now, however, there remains a gap between the national polling results and the way states have voted. It's a paradox with multiple explanations, from political geography to the likelihood that some conflicted voters tell pollsters one thing and then vote differently.
"It's not that people are lying. It's an intensely emotional issue," said Amy Simon, a pollster based in Oakland. "People can report to you how they feel at the moment they're answering the polls, but they can change their mind."
California experienced that phenomenon in November 2008, when voters, by a 52-48 margin, approved a ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution. A statewide Field Poll that September indicated Proposition 8 would lose decisively; an updated poll a week before the vote still showed it trailing by 5 percentage points.
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