perspective it is not enough, and i think this is something we ll continue to debate and that i personally will continue to wrestle with going forward. he s wrestling with it enough that he decided not to defend the constitutionality of the bill that works against it. a pew poll, 48% of the country oppose gay marriage, 42% support it. as a whole, the country. when you break it down to independenting, 44% were in favor, 43% not. so the independent voters is slightly in fact let s just call it 50/50 on the line. no surprise there. it s not clearly a big benefit so why is he doing it? i said before it s his base. he s a man almost 50 years old, a constitutional lawyer presumably. moral truth doesn t change because of polls, and the constitution doesn t change because of polls. how are you grappling and
we ll continue to dough bait and will continue to wrestle with it. he s wrestling with it enough that he decided not to defend the constitutionality of it. a pew poll, 48% of the country oppose gay marriage, 42% support it. when you break it down to independenting, 44% were in favor, 43% not. so the independent voters is slightly in fact let s just call it 50/50 on the line. no surprise there f it s not clearly a big benefit, so why? i said before it s his base. he s a man almost 50 years old, a constitutional lawyer presumably. moral truth doesn t change because of polls, and the constitution doesn t change because of polls. how are you grappling and evolving with an issue when we know the law pat, pat.
because i know his background, his mother was kind of a hippy. she was a free thinker. she wasn t a church-goer. he wasn t saying his mother was spiritual. let s go to bill clinton. he knew how to handle the bible belt. by more than half the voters overall, very good numbers relatively, and he cleans up among independenting, overwhelming numbers among independenting. your thoughts, and then roger. i think that s absolutely startling. what s amazing is how it contrasts with barack obama s number. roger was talking about the overall shape of this election, roger is absolutely right. the reason why he s right is because of independenting abandoning barack obama in droves. it s like they have a resid ilfeeling for the democrat ecparity somewhere, but right now it s not for obama, so they transferred it back to bill clinton. clinton in a way bill clinton
of be coming into the waters around the text coastline? my independenting is we have had tar balls in a couple places in the boulevard coastline. some have the characteristics of this spill and some have not. those that have exhibits characteristics of oil that would have been far weathered than it was having gone that far. we re looking at the fact of whether or not vessels working in the area transmitted oil out there and had it come ashore. that said, we set up an incident command in galveston and have an information center there. we are in touch with the general land office and in touch with governor perry s office and will continue with that moving forward. right now, there is no presence of oil on the surface over there that would require skimming capability right now. the tar balls are sometimes suspended and come ashore. we are looking to put skimmers where we need them. that s why we haven t stopped
republicans even started spending money on him. ariana, look at they poll numbers. we asked the pun among independents, though, 35% of independenting have a favorable attitude. that s a pretty significant block, the independents, as you well know, and more than a third of them, they like this tea party. well, it is a very significant block, but if you ask a lot of additional questions, you see it heart of this support is a lot of anger at wall street, at the bailout, at the fact that wall street was bailed out, but main street is suffering. so the question is, which way is the tea party movement going to go? is it going to be taken over by fringe elements that are basically proclaiming a lot of fabricated statements like obama is a socialist, or taking us