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Poll Finds Support for Florida’s Abortion Ballot Measure Is Falling Short
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 8, 2024, 3:44 p.m. ET | Kate Zernike

Posted on 10/08/2024 2:04:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A ballot measure that would establish a right to abortion in the Florida Constitution is not on track to pass in November, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College.

A plurality of voters expressed support for the measure — significantly more than those who said they would vote “no” — and a large percentage of voters were undecided. But Florida requires 60 percent of voters to approve any ballot amendment, an unusually high threshold, and the poll found support for the measure falling well short of that.

Conducted between Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, the poll found that 46 percent of likely voters said they would vote for the abortion rights amendment, 38 percent would vote against, and 16 percent said they did not know or refused to answer. Voters in the last category were twice as likely to support former President Donald J. Trump for president as they were to support Vice President Kamala Harris.

Abortion rights groups have prevailed in all seven state ballot measures across the country in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2020election; abortion; babykillingrights; florida; georgia; life; plannedparenthood; poll; polls; righttolife

1 posted on 10/08/2024 2:04:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope the ballot to put the “right” to killing babies in the constitution fails miserably.


2 posted on 10/08/2024 2:09:23 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MSM getting desperate to try to sway this vote.


3 posted on 10/08/2024 2:15:38 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006tt)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do the babies get to vote. Can I vote for them? Please.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 2:22:36 PM PDT by Kudsman (Cat lives matter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can’t give women a “right” to murder babies? That’s insane.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 2:23:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream!" U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

God bless Florida if this true. For once, I’d like to see abortion lose at the ballot box.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 2:35:30 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

2 eff nos in this house


7 posted on 10/08/2024 2:55:55 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe the pro-abortion fanaticism is starting to wane. If so, a good sign for November.


8 posted on 10/08/2024 3:35:52 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I just voted against it (by mail vote). Florida gives enough time to decide pregnancy. Late term abortion is abhorrent and cruel and despicable.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 5:06:07 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I already voted by mail for Trump/Vance in 2024. Hope they win.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m voting no.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 5:07:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Kudsman

I did just that, earlier today. One for the kids!


11 posted on 10/08/2024 5:10:52 PM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Abortion rights groups have prevailed in all seven state ballot measures across the country in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

So they'll vote "yes" in Florida. Probably with around 60%, which is the minimum necessary to pass.

12 posted on 10/08/2024 5:11:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As a Florida voter I am very much looking forward to helping make this a big NO!


13 posted on 10/08/2024 6:26:31 PM PDT by GraysonFL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s a reason that videos of real abortions are not shown.

If they were abortions could never be voted into legality.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 6:39:35 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Who determines “viability?”


15 posted on 10/09/2024 12:42:05 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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