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		<title>CECIL CHATTER: Polls, Free Lunches and &#8220;Green Bags&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poll on Same-Sex Marriage: What’s the Question? Opponents of the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland recently commissioned a poll which they claim shows a significant majority of voters oppose legalization. But the questions they say were asked are not the same questions that this reporter was asked when a pollster said to be representing the same organization called our home phone. The National Organization for Marriage states its poll of 600 registered voters found that respondents opposed legalization by a margin of 54-37. The group also states that 78 percent of respondents wanted voters, not the General Assembly, to decide the issue. (See NOM’s press release with details of its poll here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/49058222/Maryland-Poll-FINAL-02-17-11 The yes-or-no questions we were asked were different from the more open-ended questions listed on the press release that would have elicited what’s called in the polling world “volunteered” answers. Anyone who has spent time dealing with polls—as we did in our previous life supervising poll reporting for the Baltimore Sun—knows that how you ask a question can influence the outcome. In its statement, NOM and its pollster say that those surveyed were asked, “As far as you personally are concerned, should marriage be between [&#8230;]]]></description>
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