SurveyUSA had their polling robots calling Minnesotan's on the 23rd and 24th, the robots came back with these results.KSTP (SurveyUSA) (5/25, 3/31 in parenthesis):
"If an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution were on the ballot, that defines marriage as between one man and one woman, would you vote..."
For the amendment 51 (62)
Against the amendment 40 (33)
Not vote on the measure 8
Not sure 2 (5)
(MoE: ±4.3%)
While the topline numbers are not great, the trendlines are. In just a couple months the For side has gone from a +29 spread to a +11 spread, an incredible 18 point drop. Additionally, if you add the "Not vote on the measure" group to the Against group (since not voting on the amendment is just as good as a no) it gets narrowed down to a 3 point advantage.
So even though the top line numbers of this poll look ugly, I would make that case that it's actually good news. The problem for supporters of the amendment is that people will vote on it a year and a half from now and the thing that helps our side the most is time.
To illustrate that point here's the breakdown by age (For/Against):
65+ 66/27
50-64 52/40
35-49 51/37
18-34 42/50
The more old people who stop voting and the more young people who grow into voting age the more support our side has. It's that simple.
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