same sex marriage pole

Via Towleroad did I find Nate Silver's interesting dissection of polling data regarding same sex marriage (I still hate that term and would prefer something without "sex" in it, like I've heard about actual marriage).  In his FiveThirtyEight piece Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace, Nate Silver reports the following:

In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by several points, and as I reported yesterday, it has become increasingly unclear whether opposition to gay marriage still outweighs support for it.


Here is a version of the graph we produced in 2009, but updated to include the dozen or so polls that have been conducted on it since that time, as listed by pollingreport.com. I have also included opinions on gay marriage from the General Social Survey, which asked about gay marriage as long ago as 1988.

The LOESS regression line now shows 50 percent opposed to gay marriage and 49 percent in support -- basically too close to call.

I know I'm not helping the debate here, but is it just me or does this data kinda look like a penis?