This is why politicians ignore public opinion: "The number of people who have endorsed the idea that homosexual relations should be legal has dropped from 60 percent to 48 percent since the [Supreme Court] ruling, and only 40 percent of Americans say they now would support civil unions for homosexuals." [CNN] If the public was sitting here with me, I would ask it "what changed between then and now, other than getting what you pretty much wanted?" It would probably say, "ah gee, I don't know." And then I would smack it and call it a dumbass. Maybe I'd tell it to go back to school, or get a job or something.