equal is equal that the community would support them in that decision. >> brown: maggie gallagher how do you determine what happened in new york. >> republicans who campaigned one way decided to vote another which is something that never goes over well with voters. in order to help andrew cuomo in his eventually bid to run for president. it's one thing to sell out your principles in order to get elected. that's wrong. but to sell out your principles in order to get the other guy elected is is just plain dumb. i do think that the republican party in new york is going to pay a big price for that. because, you know, the polling we did and the polling is becoming very sensitive to how you ask the questions. when we asked new yorkers do you want to define marriage as one man and one woman the answer was 57% still support that. i think that's why our call to refer this to the people of new york went unheeded and the politicians in albany, you know, quickly pushed it through. >> brown: you don't see a shift in public opinion over the last few years at all? >> we're not seeing it on the groun