ST. PAUL, MN – The Minnesota House of Representatives State Fair Poll surveyed a record number of fairgoers on how they felt about a number of issues. The most dramatic finding in the survey was the question about the constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, which will be included on the ballot on Election Day 2012.
The survey’s question read: “Should the state constitution be amended to define marriage as ‘only a union of one man and one woman?’ This question will be on the November 2012 ballot.”
Some 8,300 people, or 66.5% of those surveyed, voted against the exact language that will appear on the 2012 ballot. About 30 percent voted yes, and less than 4 percent had no opinion. A record 12,549 Minnesotans voted in this year’s straw poll.
