A problem I have with polls such as these is that the polls indicate what people SAY they believe or would do, not what they ACTUALLY believe or would do. All polls have this flaw, and the reporting ignores this important point. The headline here suggests that a percentage of GOP voters won’t vote for Giuliani (I have not chosen a candidate to support, by the way, and I am pro-life.) What the poll finds is that this is what the those polled SAY they will or won’t do. I would prefer a pro-life candidate, and I certainly hope one is available in the 2008 presidential election, but even if the GOP candidate is not as pro-life as I would prefer, I will vote for him, as I cannot stomach the idea of electing Hillary without at least having done what I can do to defeat her. I am sure that there are some GOP voters who will sit out the election if there isn’t a pro-life candidate, but that they say so more than a year out from the election is hardly reliable.
I understand what you are saying, but I also realize that if polls were completely unreliable there wouldn’t any. 35% is a HUGE portion of the GOP, so even if the poll is totally flawed there are enough Republican voters who would not vote for a pro-abortion candidate to make him unelectable.