Poll: Public Closely Split on Judges' Views
There are also regional differences, with Westerners the least likely to trust their elected officials to handle gay marriage and abortion; and religious ones, with evangelical Protestants the most likely to want their state legislatures to deal with such questions.
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Trust More to Handle: | ||||||||||||
| Gay marriage | Abortion | Death penalty | ||||||||||
| Courts | Leg. | Courts | Leg. | Courts | Leg. | |||||||
| All | 40% | 45 | 44% | 44 | 53% | 40 | ||||||
| Republicans | 29 | 57 | 34 | 54 | 48 | 48 | ||||||
| Independents | 46 | 41 | 51 | 39 | 57 | 38 | ||||||
| Democrats | 44 | 38 | 48 | 39 | 54 | 37 | ||||||
Methodology
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone June 2-5, 2005, among a random national sample of 1,002 adults. The results have a three-point error margin. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, Pa.
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