A new national poll demonstrates once again that a majority of Americans now favor giving legal recognition to marriages between same-sex partners.

According to Associated Press, which conducted the poll with the National Constitution Center, 53 percent of 1,000 adults said they favor allowing legal recognition for same-sex marriages, 44 percent opposed. AP said its results were “about the same as last year.” The AP-NCC poll in August 2010 found 52 percent supported legal recognition for same-sex marriage.

With one exception, polls have been in fairly close agreement, with a bare majority favoring legal recognition of same-sex marriages.  A CNN poll in April found 51 percent support allowing same-sex marriages. A Gallup poll in May found 53 percent did so. An ABC/Washington Post poll in July found 51 percent support allowing same-sex marriages.

Only the Quinnipac University poll in July found 48 percent opposed and 46 percent supported legal recognition for same-sex marriage. The Quinnipac poll surveyed the largest number of people –2,311 registered voters—more than twice most of the other polls. But Quinnipac asked the questions specific to each state: “Would you support or oppose a law in your state that would allow same-sex couples to get married?”