Voters Show Little Sympathy for Jailed Clerk in Gay Marriage Spat (Rasmussen)

[struggle4progress]

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

... just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters think an elected official should be able to a ignore a federal court ruling that he or she disagrees with for religious reasons. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 66% think the official should carry out the law as the federal court has interpreted it ...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2015/voters_show_little_sympathy_for_jailed_clerk_in_gay_marriage_spat

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sounds like the majority of voters are using their heads. n/t

[underpants]

2. I'm shocked

The Fox News/GOP picked another loser

McCain
Romney
Palin- well honestly thank you for that one
Zimmerman
The Duggars
Cliven Bundy
Trump

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

3. Sad that 26% agree with her...

...and it lines right up with the % of Evangelical Christians in the US population:

"According to a 2011 Pew Forum study on global Christianity, 285,480,000 or 13.1 percent of all Christians are Evangelicals. The largest concentration of Evangelicals can be found in the United States, with 26.8% of the U.S. population or 94.38 million, the latter being roughly one third of the world's Evangelicals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism

[mdbl]

4. Was thinking the same thing,,,

could not get over there are that many ignorant people in this country.

[Demeter]

6. "Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"

a passage from

“On a Distant Prospect of Eton College,”
by the eighteenth-century English poet Thomas Gray:

“Where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise.’”


And here I thought it was Shakespeare! Google is my friend.

[aidbo]

5. Coincidentally,about the same percentage who still approved of old W on his way out of office

[joeybee12]

20. I've always said 30% of this country are criminally insane...

You can find 30% agreeing with other horrendous things, not just Bush...no matter how extreme, you somehow get 30% not agreeing with the majority.

[tblue37]

8. Also the diehard Bush supporters as his ratings tanked. nt

[smirkymonkey]

7. This is reassuring.

Sometimes I think the fundies are taking over, but we have to remember that they are only 1/4 of the population at most. They are outnumbered.

[bvf]

15. Yeah, but they can really be loud at times. n/t

[niyad]

9. the fact that more than one in four think that religion trumps secular laws is frightening.

[Takket]

10. Exactly what I was going to say

One out of four is a huge number

[hedda_foil]

16. There's nearly 100 million of them.

Personally, I find that alarming as all hell.
.

[PJMcK]

28. The poll was of likely voters

While I share your concern and amazement, hedda_foil, the poll was not of all Americans, just likely voters which is a smaller subset of all voters.

Their ignorance and (still) large numbers are frightening, nonetheless.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Their world is flat

IF you know what I mean.

[niyad]

13. I do indeed.

[C Moon]

31. +1

[rpannier]

11. It's a Rasmussen poll too

Their polls tend to skew conservative.
So, subtract 2 or 3% from the number and it's closer to 20-2%

I don't think she's being helped by the Huckster's support

[cprise]

14. Two things explain white conservative motives re: government

...over the past 60 years:

1. The Suffrage and Civil Rights movements re-defined everyone's relationship with government. White Christian men were no longer the primary beneficiaries of government.

2. If white conservatives could no longer have the civilian government primarily to themselves, and there is no realistic way to reverse that definition, then government must be denigrated as a threat. It can only be redeemed by making it weak and unrepresentative, staffed with cronies who selectively apply the law according to their personal or religious "conscience" (which is to say, "bias&quot .

[Z_California]

17. 26% of likely US voters are mouth breathing idiots (eom)

[lark]

18. Sounds like 26% supports Sharia law over our constitution.

RW freaking idiots - all of them.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. But those 26% believe they are the ones with 'God-given' knowledge and should run the country.

[WI_DEM]

21. But my guess is that her district/county whatever it is

is much more in agreement with her.

[tanyev]

22. Any Kentucky DUers who can weigh in on her support in her county?

Like if she manages to stay in office until the term is up, what are her chances of getting re-elected?

[craigmatic]

23. They say that clerk claims to be a dem too.

[merrily]

25. Yeah, she also claims to be a Christian. Apparently, she makes a lot of bullshit claims.

[Eric J in MN]

29. Kim Davis was the nominee of the Democratic Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk)

[merrily]

24. "Little sympathy" is an understatement, when there's a music video called

Do Your Motherfucking Job.

[Behind the Aegis]

26. "Spat?"

Really?

WTG Rasmussen in relegating a denial of equal rights to a "spat."

Kudos to those who understand denying someone equal rights is not the way to do one's job.

[Helen Borg]

27. Part of it...

Is probably that most people hate parts of their jobs and yet they have to carry them out. So, the feeling is that this bozo should stop whining and just do her job.

[PatrynXX]

30. including most Christians

extremely dangerous what shes trying to do.. and that will actually lead to what she thinks is happening to her

[d_legendary1]

32. A Rasmussen poll said this?!?!?

Wow! Now I know that the world is upside down!