{"id":184362,"date":"2012-05-23T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/23\/leadership-matters\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T23:58:00","slug":"leadership-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/23\/leadership-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shocker.  Now that Barack Obama has endorsed same-sex marriage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/after-president-obamas-announcement-opposition-to-gay-marriage-hits-record-low\/2012\/05\/22\/gIQAlAYRjU_story.html\">the polls are moving abruptly in that direction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which also finds initial signs that President Obama\u2019s support for the idea may have changed a few minds.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, hitting a high mark in support while showing a dramatic turnaround from just six years ago, when just 36 percent thought it should be legal. Thirty-nine percent, a new low, say gay marriage should be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also finds that 59 percent of African Americans say they support same-sex marriage, up from an average of 41 percent in polls leading up to Obama\u2019s announcement of his new position on the matter. Though statistically significant, it is a tentative result because of the relatively small sample of black voters in the poll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leadership generates its own support for policy.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this lesson will stick, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shocker. Now that Barack Obama has endorsed same-sex marriage, the polls are moving abruptly in that direction: Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which also finds initial signs that President Obama\u2019s support for the idea may have changed a few minds. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,971,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}