Bleak news to report out of Minnesota today, where the latest polling shows the anti-gay marriage amendment likely to pass at the ballot box in November. 

The new poll, conducted by the Twin Cities' ABC affiliate and SurveyUSA, 50 percent of Minnesotans support amending their state Constitution to discriminate against loving same-sex couples. (43 percent oppose the measure and 8 percent remain undecided.)

KTSP provides a few more details from the survey:

The amendment is favored in all regions of the state, with the closest margin in the Twin Cities metro area where the "yes" vote is ahead just 46 percent to 44 percent.  The amendment is also supported by voters in the 18 to 49 age group by a margin of 48 percent to 42 percent.  "Likely voters" over the age of 50 support the amendment 51 percent to 44 percent.  

Can we enlighten 8 percent of Minnesota's undecided voters to the right side of history by November?

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written by krystalkleer, September 12, 2012

they will be

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written by DR RJ Nicholas, September 12, 2012

yes, well this is the state with a history of killing Indians, lynching black people (Duluth was the site of the last sanctioned lynching in the US) and a long history of Anti-semitism (cited as the most anti-Semetic City in the US through the 1970s) and a state that banned Jews and Catholics from attending the public University until the early 20th century - so why now? Meanwhile they all like to see themselves as "nice" here.

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written by AF, September 12, 2012

It should be noted that this was a conservative survey and a public policy poll has it 48-47%

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