Posted on 12/15/2008 8:13:28 AM PST by GonzoII
Think of the 2008 election as Katrina for the pro-life movement. What do you do after a disaster? You see what the damage is, and what your assets are. You marshal your assets to try to rebuild.
The Register has listed “we still have a pro-life majority” as a major asset. This prompted readers to ask, “What pro-life majority?”
Susan Wills spells out the polling data on abortion, and explains how pro-abortion folks manipulate it in last year’s “The Slippery Art of Abortion Polling.”
“Here’s how we know that Roe is not supported by 66% of Americans,” she writes. “Polls with carefully-worded, neutral questions about allowing abortion in identified circumstances show minority and waning support for the policy of Roe. These are better measures of public opinion on whether abortion law should change. An April 2005 poll by the Polling Company inc., offering respondents six choices, found only 10% support for what Roe actually does.”
“Similarly, an April 2004 poll by Zogby showed 56% of Americans taking a strongly pro-life position (18% never legal; 15% legal for mother’s life only; 23% legal only for mother’s life/rape/incest). Younger Americans were even more pro-life than older Americans: among 18-29-year-olds, 60% took a pro-life position, including 26% who said ‘never legal.’”
See more context in the article. We see hope in those numbers — but only if we work confidently to deepen and broaden our majority. We aren’t a desperate, dying movement. We are a movement that has been winning hearts and minds.
There’s no reason to stop now.
— Tom Hoopes
See the Hope for America Series:
1. The Pro-Life Majority
2. The Marriage Majority
3. The New Springtime of the Faith
Article URL: http://ncregister.com/what_pro_life_majority/
Prolife Ping.
People narrowly bracket and can only focus on a certain number of things at once. Rememeber, McCain was basically tied with Obama before the financial crisis in an environment where the Republican party was at its weakest since Watergate (yes, even before the financial crisis). People put the economy first by large margins in polling on election day. In a normal year, social issues would’ve had more precedence.
“People put the economy first by large margins in polling on election day”
It looks protestants voted pro-life.
“According to the exit polls, between 53 and 54% of American Catholic voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, despite the Democratic candidate’s enthusiastic support for unrestricted legal abortion.
Nationwide, Protestant voters supported John McCain, by a solid 54- 45% margin. But the Catholic vote broke for Obama. Why?”
http://polonia-pearl.blogspot.com/2008/11/whats-wrong-with-catholic-voters-whats.html
“People put the economy first by large margins in polling on election day. In a normal year, social issues would’ve had more precedence.”
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I wish you weren’t right, but that’s the way it is, I think.
Obigula’s pro-death stance toward the innocents was not reported by the MSM. You really only heard his despicable words on talk radio. The major outlets never called him on his “wasting resources” comments or his vow to sign the Reproductive “Rights” bill. And goodness knows, I never saw a single ad from the Republicans or McCain that showcased this monster’s war on the unborn.
Catholics for Choice? There really is an organization called this? Pelosi must be their chairperson.
It has no members. "Catholics for a Free Choice" describes itself as "not a membership organization." It's basically a letterhead, but gets an automatic hearing as representing American Catholics in the legacy media. It's originally a project of Planned Parenthood, no joke, designed to peel Catholics away from Church teaching on this issue. As if you could be pro-death and Catholic. The foundress was Frances Kissling, who I believe is an ex-nun who lost her marbles in the 1960s. Oddly enough, even she has begun backing off on whether abortion is actually a good thing.
Ridiculous and evil organization, of course.
It obviously is not greater than the 46% McRINO got against 0bama.
Factor in if McLooser had not picked Sarah. He would have lost at least a few million more votes. THAT number would more accurately identify the solidly committed pro-life & trad values voter. 40 - 43 percent or so?
There were many people who claim to be pro-life that voted for the ghoul 0bama. It is not possible that many of them were unaware of the Candidate’s/Party’s position.
These are PLINOs Pro-Life in Name Only.
The primary system is corrupted and designed to favor libs. Until that changes it will be very tough to have a Sarah Palin type conservatve win the nomination.
I'm curious if any one has a take on this.
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Unfortunately, it isn’t those 66% who make the laws.
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