VENTURA, Calif. (WordNews.org) May 19, 2012 — 16, 2012 — When deciding whom to vote for this fall, each candidate’s view on core issues will be more important than what party they are affiliated with.
That’s according to the latest Barna Group survey.
The survey comes at a time when President Barack Obama became the first president to support legalizing gay marriage. That led to a Newsweek cover declaring Obama the first gay president.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, declared Obama the first “abortion president.”
Barna Group’s survey finds that Obama’s stance on gay marriage is not likely to have a major effect on the outcome of the election. Out of a dozen high profile issues assessed, gay marriage was 10th in importance, with 31 percent of voters saying this issue would affect their voting “a lot.” The faith of the candidates is also not much of a factor, according to Barna. Evangelical voters are more concerned about the issue than are most other voters, but it is not likely to turn many evangelicals against Obama since few of them (less than one out of every five) expected to vote for him anyway, Barna said.
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