Nevada, California, Texas, Kansas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Missouri and Alaska have all had the issue put before a popular vote and in all cases it was clear that the people do not support same sex marriage. In some cases it was 81% of the voters casting a resounding no vote. In Iowa, where the activist judges made same sex legal, those judges were voted out of office in their next election, which was a measure of displeasure of the voting public.
So that would be 28 states where the majority of voters have made their objections clear. That does not sound like an issue that someone running for national office should be hitching a mule to. And it is definitely not a mandate.
Yet every poll says that a majority of Americans support same sex marriage, the latest poll by NBC/WSJ has the figure at 54%. The problem is they say they support same-sex marriage but once they go into the voting booth they have a change of heart.