“[People are] more likely to tell their true feelings on an automated poll where there’s no social anxiety concern than to a live interviewer whose reaction they may be worried about…:

A leading pollster whose company favors liberal causes says most polls on “gay marriage” can’t be trusted because Americans — not wanting to be labeled intolerant — are hesitant to state their position on the issue to a live interviewer.

Tom Jensen, director of the North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling, says automated polls — that is, polls in which a person does not talk to someone but instead can press buttons on a phone keypad — are more reliable. His company uses automated polling.

Public Policy Polling’s latest poll, released Aug. 13, shows Americans opposing “gay marriage” by a margin of 57-33 percent. That poll conflicts with a new CNN poll that used live callers and showed a slight majority of adults thinking there is a constitutional right to “gay marriage.”

Both polls were conducted after a federal judge struck down California’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

Polls released by Gallup, CNN, The New York Times and all the major news networks use live callers. Only a handful of major polling companies use automated polling, among them Rasmussen Reports and SurveyUSA.

Public Policy Polling was the only company last year that correctly predicted Maine citizens would vote to overturn a “gay marriage” law.

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