WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-Poll: N.H. Voters Split on Gay Marriage
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Hanover, New Hampshire - May 13, 2009
A new poll shows New Hampshire residents are pretty evenly split on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Forty-five percent of those polled by Dartmouth College oppose legalizing gay marriage, and 41 percent support it. The difference was within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
The House gave final approval to a gay marriage bill last week and sent it to Governor John Lynch, who hasn't said whether he will sign it.
On other social issues before the legislature, the poll found strong support for a bill requiring adults to wear seat belts and another bill legalizing the use of medicinal marijuana.
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