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Originally Posted by Nedusa

The vast majority of people in this country will applaud David Cameron for the personal risk he took to his political career and reputation in order to push through such a much needed and much overdue change to our laws.

"The vast majority of people in this country" couldn't care less about "such a much needed and much overdue change to our laws"

This is what voters will remember in two years time .

No, they won't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21339877

Anthony Wells, YouGov associate director

However much attention it is getting in the media at the moment, gay marriage is not the sort of issue that will have a big impact on people's votes come the general election when, as usual, people's votes will be decided upon the bigger issues.

Polls claiming to show that it will change a large number of votes are because the question asked singles out just that one issue. By May 2015, (when the election is due) gay marriage will have been on the statute book for two years and will be broadly accepted. More importantly, it will fade to insignificance next to bigger issues like the economy, health, crime and the merits of the party leaders.

Our most recent polling shows only 7% of people say that gay marriage would be an important issue in deciding their vote, and they are evenly split between people who support and oppose the issue.

The more important impact will be on how the Conservative party is perceived: in or out of touch, modern or stuck in the past, or - as our present polling and today's vote suggests - just hopelessly divided.