I saw you other post where you did a break down of the groups. You were very realistic in your break downs. You correctly assume that some fence sitter may be swayed.
How much more Pro-choice to you think the few truck converts will become on the average using a scale of one to ten?
What is your guess at the additional percentage of people who will now:
Be more Pro-choice but never do anything about it?
Vote more Pro-choice in the polls only?
Vote more Pro-choice in the voting booths only?
Make some effort to persaude others to become more pro-choice?
Become highly active Pro-choicers?
Not have an abortion they might have had?
Will revert to their old beliefs when the conditioning has worn off?
Maybe you would really like to tell me your answers for these questions about groups you have chosen to discuss?
I gave you my estimates about the groups in general, and I do not need to break down the estimates into smaller groups. Abortion opinions are finely tuned for each individual fence-sitter and we would have as many possible combinations of opinions, say, about months abortion should be legal or circumstances in which it should be illegal, as there are fence-sitter voters. I'd hate to spend the hours it would take to determine answers to your questions and I don't think it would be necessary, since, IMHO, it would be a case of "seeing the trees, but missing the forest."
I'll say it again,
I believe Cunningham wins more than he loses because, in effect, "fence-sitters" are, practically speaking, already pro-choice.
It's highly doubtful that the degree of fence-sitters' pro-choiceness will be intensified due to their viewing those graphically gruesome pictures, because that would be emotionally equivalent to a previously apathetic person viewing a Humane Society's picture of an abused dog and deciding to go out and support people who are abusing dogs.
The Humane Society has the sympathy factor working for them, and they know it. I think Cunningham has tapped into that same vein of human sympathy for the abused.
It is true the signs might convince the firmly pro-choice that they need to take stronger action, since the ante has now been upped. I think the firmly pro-choice people are pretty ticked-off since the fetuses don't look like blobs.
The pro-choicers know that fence-sitters are, practically speaking, feeble pro-choicers, who are willing to take an innocent life in certain circumstances. Rabid pro-choicers would love to have fencesitters stay the fencesitting folks that they already are because they are safer that way.