Link to ABC News/Washington Post poll:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1050a3SocialIssues.pdf

From "POLL: Support for Civil Unions Rises, Yet Sharp Divisions Remain," ABC News, November 8, 2007:

A record number of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll support civil unions for gay couples...

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...

Conservative Republicans and evangelical white Protestants oppose civil unions by more than 2-1, and Republicans overall oppose them by 58-39 percent...

[Support for civil unions] peaks among adults under age 30, and tanks among seniors. It's highest in the East and West, notably lower in the Midwest and South. Whites overall are more apt than blacks to support gay civil unions, and the idea wins more support among women (59 percent) than men (51 percent, and 47 percent among married men)...

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