"Although this result is within the poll's margin of error, it is the intensity of feeling among same-sex marriage opponents that causes the overall result to lean slightly towards repeal, " said Steve Raabe, OpinionWorks president.

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The truth is that, out of all the major sports, football is the most team-oriented and so it causes individual player evaluations more of an art than a science which leaves greater margins of error.

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