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Stunning Reversal: Majority of Americans Now Pro-Life

Submitted by T D Williams on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:23

Gallop finds the American public is now 51% pro-life and only 42% pro-choice. This is a stunning reveral from the results of polls conducted over a 15 year period.  The number of pro-life Americans grew 7% in 2008 while the number of pro-choice Americans dropped 8%.

Gallop has been polling on the issue since 1995. And this is the first time that the pro-life position has not only surpassed pro-choice, but includes a majority of Americans.

Gallop reports that the significant shifts have come from Republicans or those leaning Republican (10% pro-life increase), political moderates (7% pro-life increase), Protestants (8% increase) and Catholics (7% increase).

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Not espousing one side or the other....

Submitted by thirdeblue on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:36.

...but doesn't that sudden reversal seem odd in the past year?  I'd like to see the corrolation of people's self-identification to the preference for actual policy.  Is the desire for striking down Roe vs. Wade climbing or not?

For a Liberal, It is Worrisome ...

Submitted by ToddLuvsLounging on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 15:56.

but I believe these numbers are more important:

Gallup: ... Still, the dominant position on this question remains the middle option, as it has continuously since 1975: 53% currently say abortion should be legal only under certain circumstances.

If that number were ever to slip below 40% then I could see Roe vs. Wade overturned and chaos in the states. I don't see how this helps Republicans gain support with women or city dwellers or the young, though.

looks like an outlier to me...

Submitted by Maleficent on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 16:27.

and to nate silver, who actually runs the stats.

USA's shift to the right in wake of Obama victory = logical!

Submitted by Freedoms Truth on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 17:36.

Another data point-

http://blog.nj.com/njv_scott_bach/2009/05/support_plummets_for_resrictio...

Four different polls recently point to declining support for gun restrictions as the answer to crime. In October, a Gallup poll found that fewer Americans than ever favor handgun bans, based on Gallup's 49 year history of polling on the issue. Support fell from a high of 60% in 1959 to a low of less than 30% in 2008. The same trend repeats itself in a question on whether more restrictions are needed on the sales of all firearms, not just handguns.

In addition, three different media polls taken in April reflect plummeting support for gun control. CNN found support has fallen by double digits to less than 40% while an ABC News-Washington Post poll found that more than 60% support enforcing current laws against criminals rather than passing new laws restricting the rights of law abiding citizens. NBC News and The Wall Street Journal found that support for a ban on rifles has fallen by a third in the last 18 years.

All of these polls show what peaceable gun owners already know - that support for the Second Amendment is the dominant belief in America today, and the fallacy that restricting the rights of honest citizens will impact crime has been exposed for what it is.

what the heck is going on? How could Americans get so gung ho over the second amendment while supporting the most leftwing candidate in history?

Maybe you didnt notice during Obama's magnificent campaign last year, but he did the Kabuki dance on multiple issues:

  • He came out for tax cuts
  • He came out for second amendment rights
  • He tried to cater and pander to prolifers

http://www.prolifeproobama.com/

  • He opposed gay marriage and the Cali Prop 8
  • He forcefully denounced deficits and promised to go after wasteful spending

If he didn't have the track record of the most liberal Senator in the US Senate, you'd might confuse him with a conservative. THAT WAS PROBABLY THE INTENTION. He fooled many uninformed voters into sounding more moderate/open than he really was.

What this has done is make it SAFE TO BE PRO-LIFE, PRO-SECOND-AMENDMENT, AND PRO-TAX-CUTS AND SUPPORT OBAMA.

Since these things in the past were associated with Republicans, people may have been dissuaded from saying they were prolife. They might have thought 'only Republicans hold that position'.

Now here's the hard part - come 2010, when the pro-life, pro-2ndA, pro-fiscal responsibility folks who got gulled into voting for Obama in 2008 look at the fruits of the Democrat Congress.... will they still vote for Democrats?

Not if they push their gun banning, taxpayer-funded abortions, trillion-dollar deficits and huge boondoggle spending agenda.