Polls Predict Pro-Life Landside in November as Republicans Top Democrats

[Soutane]

Polls Predict Pro-Life Landside in November as Republicans Top Democrats

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 7, 2010

ashington, DC (LifeNews.com) – New polls released today show good news for pro-life advocates as the predicted November 2010 election landslide 55 days from now looks more and more likely. The polls show voters favor Republican candidates, who are more pro-life than their Democratic counterparts, so much that a takeover is possible.

The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll usually has sympathetic numbers for the pro-abortion Democrats who currently control Congress and have advanced President Barack Obama’s pro-abortion agenda.

But today’s survey shows that the people most likely to vote based on their level of interest in the campaign and their history of voting, give Republicans a dramatic 49% to 40% advantage

 

[Monte_RCMS]

What is “disturbing” to me is that very few of the new “citizen candidates” [versus the standard “career politicians”] announce their pro-life status.

To find out if they are pro-life, I have to wait to get mailings from pro-life organizations or delve into their resumes and Web sites, where their pro-life views show up in their endorsements or are embedded in their work history.

On the other hand, a friend ran for Congress some years ago. He was as very fiscal conservative, Constitutionalist kind of person. Articulate. And when interviewed by the county newspaper “of record”, he was crucified for being pro-life.

They refused to print his economic, political and fiscal views and instead went after him for being against “choice” and against “women’s rights”.

The newspaper refused to consider any other issue. For them, abortion was a single issue aspect of the campaign.

The “Catholic” incumbent was pro-choice.

What a mess.

When I was asked to sit in for him because he had to be in two places at one time, I was asked not to bring up the abortion / pro-life issue to avoid being “crowded out”.

What happened was that I avoided the “issue” and dwelt on a bunch of other issues and was congratulated for being adroit. The incumbent then arranged to cancel all of the candidates days so that there would be no further public appearances by the challenger and then also and very expensively ordered so much printed matter that NONE of the print shops in the area could handle any more work. They were booked up SOLID.

There are a lot of dirty tricks in the politics business.

The current dirty trick “du jour” seems to be for a newspaper to print totally false information such as when the IRS audited the challenger and demanded a huge back tax judgement. THAT was reported by the newspaper and repeated over and over by the incumbent. They did not report that the IRS then retracted and withdrew and apologized and said it was all a mistake. Sorry about that. This is against a pro-life candidate.

 

[ChadS]

The problem with this article is that the poll cited predicts no such thing. It shows that Republicans are ahead of Democrats in the polling – end of story. LifeNews chooses to append “pro-life” to every Republican giving their articles an erroneous sense that the real story is a matter of pro-life vs. pro-choice. A Gallup poll from back in April showed that concerns about the economy ranked 1st among both Republicans and Democrats. Healthcare was a close second, followed up by unemployment, the deficit and terrorism.

It seems to me that when Republicans talk about the economy and deficit and people are concerned about those issues they like what the Republican is saying about those issues. Abortion, to many voters, becomes secondary and while they may like a candidates stated position or implied stance on abortion they are voting foremost for their position on the economy and the deficit.

Plus, as Monte said we don’t always know the candidates position on abortion. Some Republican candidates may be more lukewarm on the matter than others.

ChadS

 

[Monte_RCMS]

The problem with this article is that the poll cited predicts no such thing. It shows that Republicans are ahead of Democrats in the polling – end of story. LifeNews chooses to append “pro-life” to every Republican giving their articles an erroneous sense that the real story is a matter of pro-life vs. pro-choice. A Gallup poll from back in April showed that concerns about the economy ranked 1st among both Republicans and Democrats. Healthcare was a close second, followed up by unemployment, the deficit and terrorism.

It seems to me that when Republicans talk about the economy and deficit and people are concerned about those issues they like what the Republican is saying about those issues. Abortion, to many voters, becomes secondary and while they may like a candidates stated position or implied stance on abortion they are voting foremost for their position on the economy and the deficit.

Plus, as Monte said we don’t always know the candidates position on abortion. Some Republican candidates may be more lukewarm on the matter than others.

ChadS

Yup.

Of course, 99.44% of Democrats AND the Democrat Party platform are 100% pro-choice.

Not so with the Republicans, not so … except for most but not all RINO’s.

 

[gnjsdad]

The problem with this article is that the poll cited predicts no such thing. It shows that Republicans are ahead of Democrats in the polling – end of story. LifeNews chooses to append “pro-life” to every Republican giving their articles an erroneous sense that the real story is a matter of pro-life vs. pro-choice. A Gallup poll from back in April showed that concerns about the economy ranked 1st among both Republicans and Democrats. Healthcare was a close second, followed up by unemployment, the deficit and terrorism.

It seems to me that when Republicans talk about the economy and deficit and people are concerned about those issues they like what the Republican is saying about those issues. Abortion, to many voters, becomes secondary and while they may like a candidates stated position or implied stance on abortion they are voting foremost for their position on the economy and the deficit.

Plus, as Monte said we don’t always know the candidates position on abortion. Some Republican candidates may be more lukewarm on the matter than others.

ChadS

You’ve nailed it.

This is what happens when the pro-life movement becomes, in effect, merely an adjunct of one of the political parties.