Posted on 11/07/2023 4:50:46 PM PST by Morgana
CNN has released the results of exit polling in today’s vote on issue 1 and the polling data looks considerably skewed from national polling over the course of the last few years.
According to the CNN data, the electorate today supported abortion in what has been turning into more of a red state over the years – even though national polling data shows more Americans are pro-life than pro-abortion.
The Ohio electorate turning out for the vote largely favors legal abortion – roughly 3 in 10 say the procedure should be legal in all cases and about a third that it should be legal in most cases, similar to the 2022 electorate.
About 3 in 10 say it should be legal in all cases, and about one-tenth that it should never be legal, but the majority of the electorate stands somewhere in between. Notably, while Democrats lead Republicans when it comes to which party voters trust to handle abortion, it’s by only a single-digit margin.
Meanwhile, voters who turned out in favor of Issue 1 (and voted “yes”) hold strong views on abortion and Roe, more so than those who turned out in opposition (and voted “no”).
About 6 in 10 “yes” voters say they’re angry that Roe was overturned, compared with only about 4 in 10 “no” voters who say they are enthusiastic about the decision. And while roughly half of “yes” voters say abortion should always be legal, only about one-quarter of “no” voters want it to be illegal in all circumstances.
Those results differ from Gallup’s polling that it conducted this summer.
As Gallup notes, “Specifically, close to half of Americans, 47%, now say abortion should be legal in all (34%) or most (13%) circumstances, while a similar proportion, 49%, want it legal in only a few (36%) or illegal in all (13%) circumstances.”
That means 49 percent of Americans take a pro-life position opposing all or most abortions while a lower 47% take a pro-abortion position supporting all or most abortions.
So why does CNN have the results at 61% pro-abortion and Gallup at 47% pro-abortion?
First, even though Americans are still nominally pro-life overall, radical abortion activists are more angry that Roe was overturned than pro-life voters are happy about the Dobbs decision overturning it. That results in more abortion advocates turning out to the polls to vote for abortion because the smaller poll of pro-abortion voters are more incentivized to vote than the slightly larger poll of pro-life voters.
Secondly, Ohio voters also voted today on a ballot measure to legalize marijuana. That very likely increased turnout of liberal voters who were more likely to vote for abortion.
Third, the pro-abortion side dominated fundraising – with reports towards the end of the election showing that they had 3-1 fundraising advantage over pro-life groups. The out of state dark money and millions from leftists like George Soros, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood allowed the pro-abortion side to dominate TV and online with blatantly false commercials that further angered liberal voters and drove them to the polls in higher numbers.
To counter this, pro-life groups need to a) emphasize the great thigs Dobbs accomplished – from saving babies to helping women, b) engage in more work to identify and turn out voters in elections, c) do more to fundraise and find large donors who can help the prolife movement overcome the massive fundraising disparity so it can counter the avalanche of false ads.
I agree. We are New Babylon.
Babylon System is the vampire!
Uh yeah. USA is probably one of the most pro-abortion countries on earth. Even European countries typically have bans that go into effect at 12 weeks, something that is political poison here.
Exactly like Michigan their demonic mentors, the ballot proposal is said to be really long and “no one could read it at the polling place” and “the language is deliberately misleading.”
Example: Polls show so called partial birth abortion is opposed by millions of voters but although the Ohio proposal totally allows it, no one can tell from the secretive wording that they are voting to allow it. Just as in Michigan.
Michigan examples: No one can sue the performer of the botched abortion if the woman has to go to the ER. Doesn’t have to be a doctor performing an abortion, just a health practitioner.
Radio host Vanessa Denhi Garma on the Catholic station near me said “I still have to have arguments today, about what was passed already into law last
year. They deny it, naively ignorant of what is now allowed for abortions in the Michigan Constitution.”
If Satan gets tired of Hell he could move to Michigan and feel at home.
Polls in Ohio closed at 7:30pm.
Well even in Poland, their conservative government just lost because women voted en masse against their restrictive abortion laws.
Do you think that those procuring abortions are drawing welfare benefits for the unborn child; then they can collect for 39 to 40 weeks and murder their child?
I”t’s really pro murder and child mutilation.”
The baby body-parts sellers will be making a killing in Ohio.
Not LOL
CNN is not 60 years old. Closer to 40 years old.
Women want to kill any unborn babies that are inconvenient. Men want s3x
Dimocraps are running on abortion and J6 because they have nothing else.
And a lot of women want to keep them while their men pressure them to abort (never talked about).
Abortion works for them.
We’re going to have to focus on winning hearts and minds, rather than trying to legislate morality, it doesn’t work.
The left will rue putting abortion into state constitutions. This will help single men who aren’t ready to become parents. They will be able to break free of the financial tether the courts are using against them. When abortion becomes a constitutional right, it applies equally. Even if they claim “a woman’s right to abortion,” it’s a new world now and anyone can be a woman - even an impregnating one. There will have to be an accommodation made to facilitate the right to abortion to the non-pregnant partner. A legal separation if you will, that permanently revokes parenthood, without interference.
I will never understand how people under 50 (born since Roe) can support the Dim cult that is loud and proud about having murdered one third of their generation in abortion.
Ooops!!! My BAD!
Guess I was way too exuberant over the poll.
Indeed, Ted Turner did launch the network in 1980.
Thanks for correcting my mistake.
The issue of abortion rightfully belongs to the states. Still, it is disappointing that there are so many of our fellow citizens that seem to favor the terrible procedure.
Conservatives aren’t all pro-life
Yes. Absolutely. Amen
But, now baby murder is off the ballot in Ohio for the 2024 presidential election.
Take that, ‘Rats.
Yep, many are tired of paying for welfare babies for parents who aren't qualified to have kids.
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