Many Criticize Voting Rights Ruling; Partisan Splits on Gay Marriage Continue Among blacks, disapproval of the ruling soars to 71 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. See PDF with full results, charts and tables here. The decision on the California case is slightly less popular than the one on federal benefits in a number of groups, including conservatives, who may be less accepting of a court-mandated reversal of a voter-approved gay marriage ban. Partisan and ideological divisions are quite different when it comes to the Voting Rights Act. This poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, finds that Republicans and "very" conservatives divide on this ruling, while Democrats disapprove by a 28-point margin, joined by independents, by 22 points. Notably, along with liberals and moderates, "somewhat" conservatives also disapprove, by 19 points. Beyond political allegiance and ideology, the gay marriage rulings, for their part, are sharply more popular among adults younger than 40 than among their elders, long a feature of public attitudes on the issue. Seniors remain particularly skeptical of gay marriage. Additionally, men and less-educated Americans are less supportive of both decisions, especially the California ruling, than are women and college-educated adults. METHODOLOGY - This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cell phone June 26-30, 2013, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,005 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points. The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, N.Y., with sampling, data collection and tabulation by SSRS/Social Science Research Solutions of Media, Pa. SHOWS: This Week World News