Given all that, it's little surprise that the guy's balked at supporting same-sex marriage.I mean, regardless of your stance on it, this issue's about as heated as it gets - pretty much the equivalent of political heart burn. Just a day before Obama's big endorsement, voters in North Carolina (where the Democratic Convention will be held) approved a constitutional amendment banning both same-sex marriages and civil unions (a vote Obama expressed disapproval about). North Carolina is just one of 30 states that have voted in favor of constitutional amendments defining marriage as a heterosexual union. And a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that while the contingent of American's supporting gay marriage has increased in recent years - to just over 50 percent - there is still a ton of strong opposition, especially in many of the swing states that Obama needs to win in the upcoming election. Currently, eight of those 10 swing states don't allow same-sex marriage (Iowa and New Hampshire are the exceptions).

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Obama's Very Loaded Thumbs Up On Same-Sex Marriage