Number of the Day

Four: The number of credible polls "in the past eight months to show an outright majority of Americans in favor of gay marriage."

Nate says it's "too soon to say with confidence that support for gay marriage has become the plurality position (let alone the majority one)," but "opponents of gay marriage almost certainly no longer constitute a majority."

Which means: Opponents of same-sex marriage are now officially a permanent minority in the US.

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