Posted on 10/19/2007 12:59:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new CBS News poll has bad news for pro-abortion Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. It shows that Americans who self-identify as evangelical voters are strongly pro-life and will not support a pro-abortion candidate for president.
The poll, released on Friday, find 79 percent of evangelical voters take one of three pro-life positions opposing abortion.
They either oppose all abortions, all abortions except those rare one to save the life of the mother, or support abortions only in the rare cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life.
But the poll also asked, "Is it possible you would ever vote for a candidate who does not share your views on social issues like abortion."
Some 60 percent of self-described evangelical voters said no while just 29 percent said they would consider backing a pro-abortion candidate.
Americans in general take a 50-41 percentage point split with 41 percent saying they would not vote for someone with a contrasting view on abortion.
The CBS News poll also asked evangelical respondents "How important will social issues such as abortion be in your vote for president next year -- extremely important, very important, somewhat important, or not too important?"
Among evangelicals, 74 percent said abortion was important to their vote with 42 percent saying abortion is extremely important and 32 percent saying it is very important.
Only 16 percent said abortion is somewhat important to their presidential vote and just 8 percent said abortion is not too important to them.
Among Americans in general of both parties, 45 percent said abortion is extremely or very important and 54 percent said it is somewhat or not too important.
Repub candidates across the board will go down to defeat unless our conditions are met. Our demands are these:
(1) Rudy Guiliani withdraws from the 2008 race, at once.
(2) Rudy Giuliani resigns from the Republican Party.
(3) Rudy Giuliani is legally prevented from ever calling himself a Republican or running as a Repub.
Rooty is. He said he would pay cash money to have his grandchild murdered in the womb.
If that’s not “Pro Abortion” I don’t know what is?
My guess is that a lot of these so called conservatives who talk about pragmatism are neither. They are liberals and voting for another liberal is not pragmatic for them, it’s what they want.
For whatever the reason they have an aversion to the Clintons, but they can never give us a specific policy of any import that Rooty and Hitlery disagree on.
They are liberals and voting for another liberal is not pragmatic for them, its what they want.
***Yup. The main force behind the tootyfruityrudy brigade is that they simply agree with him.
Stirring the ghouliani pot again, I see ! LOL
The kaliforn-i-a post has the rooties in a tizzy and now this one.
(that being said, even the resignation of my “buddy”, Mel Martinez isn’t going to keep the ‘pubs from disaster in 2008 unless they become the party of life, and small gov’t again.)
As a pro-lifer, I will NEVER vote for anyone in the Abortion Party (Dems), which is more important than one individual’s views. Every Abortion Party person elected is another vote for rampant abortion. God is watching!
A person can change their view of being pro-choice to pro-life in an instant. I know, because I did. (Thank God!)
All it took was this one sentence.
"Abortion is the work of the Devil." -- Mother Teresa.
Not surprising, considering that Ghouly is bad news!
Pro-Life Evangelicals Won’t Vote for Pro-Abortion Candidate for President
The title of this thread says it clearly. Hillary gets the Presidency if the GOP does not nominate a Pro Life Candidate. Period. You can walk all around it ain’t gonna change.
Hunter is still my first choice. Why settle for anything else.
Go, Hunter.
My guess is that Huckabee’s on the rise, though, with a small but perhaps significant bump to both of the above, due to Brownback backing out.
If Catholics will vote for a Mormon, perhaps they’ll vote for a Baptist. ;-)
Just curious but what did you believe up until then and what most influenced your pro-abortion stance?
Huckabee is a big government, nanny stater. No thank you!!
Go Hunter!
I have never considered myself a Republican, but have usually voted for Republican candidates because they reflected my views of America.
The Republicans, once they got in power, decided they could abandon the people and principals that got them elected. And it seems that they have not learned any lessons from their defeat in 2006.
I will not abandon my values to vote for any party candidate. If that means that the Republicans go down in defeat, maybe that will wake them up. America has stood many tough times, and it can survive four more years of Clinton, and another traitorous Congress.
Time to put down the libertarian Kool-Aid and get away from empty sloganeering.
America survived eight years of the Clintons, we can survive a few more. However, I do not believe that the conservative movement can necessarily survive a liberal Republican president.
Just plain ignorant brainwashing by the liberal feminist left and the education system....and being too stupid to know any better or question their 'authority.'
Also, I grew up in San Francisco.
Let’s wait and see who the nominees are.
California Poll : Hillary 57% Rudy911 37% (Man, Rudy911 is Thiiiiiiiis Close....LOL)
Interesting concept. Not one I share however.
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