As we reported last week, it was hard to make an immediate judgment on the political ramifications of Barack Obama's decision last Wednesday to come out in support of same-sex marriage.
There hasn't been any significant polling done since his interview with ABC's Robin Roberts — until now.
A New York Times/CBS News Poll out this morning shows the overwhelming number of those surveyed believe the president's announcement was motivated by politics and not policy, probably not a statistic that Team Obama in Chicago will be overjoyed to see.
Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed say they thought that Obama had made it “mostly for political reasons,” while 24 percent said it was “mostly because he thinks it is right.”
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.