This U.K. poll has not been conducted by one of the major polling organizations (and the polling sample is very small), and my enthusiasm for David Cameron’s Conservative party is somewhat limited, but the poll’s findings are nonetheless interesting:

A new poll has been published today which suggests that David Cameron is appealing to gay voters in a way that previous Conservative leaders have not succeeded. A survey of 1,800 gay users of the Gaydar site has shown that 30% would vote Conservative; 18% Labour; 18% Lib Dem; 17% wouldn’t vote; and 9% were undecided.

As are these from a recent CBS News poll:

While 41 percent [of] Americans under 45 support legalizing gay marriage, only 18 percent of Americans over 65 agree, and nearly half of seniors do not think there should be any legal recognition of same-sex marriage.

I fully understand (even if I do not agree with) the idea that same-sex unions are a threat to “conventional” marriage and I fully understand those who argue that opposition to gay marriage is a fundamental principle too important to be abandoned for reasons of political expediency, but these findings should, I reckon, at least be some sort of warning to those who assume that the GOP’s current position on this issue will continue to be a vote-winner.