New poll on Obama and SSM

[Quantum Windbag]

I don't usually post polls because they are more about the pollster trying to prove something than what people think. There are exceptions, but they are few, and far between.

Then there are the polls that end up showing us something the pollster would prefer we didn't know. It seems that Americans are a bit smarter than the average ObamaZombie and that a full 67% think he was playing politics.

Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed by The New York Times and CBS News since the announcement said they thought that Mr. Obama had made it “mostly for political reasons,” while 24 percent said it was “mostly because he thinks it is right.” Independents were more likely to attribute it to politics, with nearly half of Democrats agreeing.
The results reinforce the concerns of White House aides and Democratic strategists who worried that the sequence of events leading up to the announcement last week made it look calculated rather than principled.
Mr. Obama, who had said since late 2010 that his position on the issue was “evolving,” finally proclaimed his support for same-sex marriage only after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did so first in a television interview.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/u...otivated-by-politics.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

 

[Lakhota]

He's the President, for Kryst sake, how could it NOT be political?

 

[SniperFire]

This guy couldn't run an Ant Farm.

 

[Sherry]

I don't usually post polls because they are more about the pollster trying to prove something than what people think. There are exceptions, but they are few, and far between.

Then there are the polls that end up showing us something the pollster would prefer we didn't know. It seems that Americans are a bit smarter than the average ObamaZombie and that a full 67% think he was playing politics.

Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed by The New York Times and CBS News since the announcement said they thought that Mr. Obama had made it “mostly for political reasons,” while 24 percent said it was “mostly because he thinks it is right.” Independents were more likely to attribute it to politics, with nearly half of Democrats agreeing.
The results reinforce the concerns of White House aides and Democratic strategists who worried that the sequence of events leading up to the announcement last week made it look calculated rather than principled.
Mr. Obama, who had said since late 2010 that his position on the issue was “evolving,” finally proclaimed his support for same-sex marriage only after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did so first in a television interview.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/u...otivated-by-politics.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Even though I think it was Obama's true feeling for a long time, but he was being constrained by the politics, the sequence of events make him appear to be a follower...go Joe.