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82% of Americans favor some form of legal abortion. 17% are opposed to all abortion.

Nice try at distorting the facts. By the same survey you chose to quote from, 73% of respondents feel that abortion should be illegal in some cases. This survey asked about abortion in the positive sense, so it is likely that the pro-abortion count reflected by it is exaggerated. Most neutrally oriented surveys show a slight plurality on pro-life side.

The country is very evenly split on this issue, regardless of how the pro-abortion crowd attempts to spin it.

You have to put it in the context of the discussion. There are those who oppose abortion at ANY level - the 17%. And you're right, about 70% or so don't want unrestricted abortion. That is where most of the country is. The point I was making was two-fold: First, that those who don't vote for politicians who don't represent their 17% viewpoint are being counter productive because they defacto elect those who support unlimited abortion.

Second, the comment he was making was that there had been an erosion in the Republican party that has increased the support for abortion. But this poll shows that for the last 26 years, the numbers have remained essentially steady - no big worrisome increase.