Last Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the giving of subsidies to buy health insurance in all 50 states, and on Friday, that court then legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 state. Since then, right-wing Republican officials have been loudly complaining and whining. To hear some of them, you would think the end of the world is upon us.
But the truth is that they are only speaking for a small minority of Americans -- the teabaggers and evangelicals within their own party's base (which is understandable since those are the people they need to keep happy to survive their party's primaries next year). It turns out that fairly substantial majorities of the public at large disagree with the Republicans. About 63% of Americans support the Supreme Court decision to keep the insurance subsidies, and 59% support the decision to legalize same-sex marriages.
Those are some fairly large percentages, and show that the position taken by right-wing Republicans might be popular with their own base, but are not going to be winning positions to take in next year's general election.
The numbers are from a new CNN / ORC Poll -- taken between June 26th and 28th of 1,017 nationwide adults (with a 3 point margin of error).
