{"id":1548,"date":"2005-05-17T00:33:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T07:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/17\/new-poll-data-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T07:33:48","slug":"new-poll-data-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"New poll data on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/05\/index.html#006424\">Via Tapped<\/a>, this PEW center poll has an interesting abortion question; rather than asking about banning or not banning, or about <em>Roe<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?PageID=948\">they asked<\/a> if people opposed or favored &#8220;making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.&#8221; This form of the question doesn&#8217;t seem biased in any obvious way, and it directly reflects the new face of abortion rights wars &#8211; in which conservatives try to chip away at abortion availability bit by bit.<\/p>\n<p>The result was that Republicans &#8211; and only Republicans &#8211; favored making it more difficult to get an abortion. Swing voters and all groups of Democrats do not favor making abortion more difficult. Overall, 55% of those surveyed opposed such efforts, while 36% favored them. So the theory that Democrats could find many new votes by being less pro-choice seems dubious. Here&#8217;s the graphic; the top three groups are different groups of Republicans, the bottom three different groups of Democrats, and the middle two represent different groups of swing voters.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/abortion_opinion_2005.gif' class=\"centered\" alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>There are other notable resolts. As Tapped pointed out, an overwhelming majority of Americans wants the Ten Commandments in courtrooms (22%\/74%), and a majority would like to see creationism as well as evolution taught in the classroom (33%\/57%).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, liberal economic ideas are pretty mainstream. Huge majorities of the public would like to see an increase in the minimum wage (12% opposed, 86% in favor) and raising taxes to pay for health insurance for all (30% opposed, 65% in favor).<\/p>\n<p>And in general, &#8220;liberals&#8221; are <em>less <\/em>left on economic issues than &#8220;disadvantaged democrats&#8221; are. On the other hand, &#8220;liberals&#8221; are &#8211; surprise surprise &#8211; the <em>only <\/em>group that favors same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Tapped, this PEW center poll has an interesting abortion question; rather than asking about banning or not banning, or about Roe, they asked if people opposed or favored &#8220;making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-economics-and-the-like","category-elections-and-politics","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}