A record number of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll support civil unions for gay couples, and most continue to favor legal abortion – while behind those majority views sharp political and ideological divisions rage on.
Overall, 55 percent favor allowing homosexual couples to form legally recognized civil unions, giving them the same rights as married couples in areas such as health insurance, inheritance and pension coverage. That's up from 45 percent in an ABC/Post poll in 2006; the previous high was 51 percent in 2004.
See the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll at http://abcnews.go.com/ PollingUnit/story?id=3834625&page=1.
PDF version with charts and full questionnaire at http:// abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1050a3SocialIssues.pdf.