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By Paul Stark A new Star Tribune-MPR News poll indicates that 59 percent of Minnesotans want Roe v. Wade kept in place. That's a highly misleading and unreliable finding. Here's the poll question: "Roe v. Wade was the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal....
By Right to Life of Michigan "Republicans divided over abortion," the headline reads. The Hill teamed up with a sister company of the Harris Poll for a survey on the topic of abortion. The major takeaway, in their mind, is that Republicans are “evenly split” on...
By Dave Andrusko According to The Hill, a recent online poll on abortion conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company “found that 41 percent of respondents believe that the procedure should be legal in limited circumstances, such as rape, incest and to save...
By Dave Andrusko Just for fun, since we are still 77 days away from the November 6 mid-term elections, I thought we’d talk about an interview CBS News pollster Anthony Salvanto gave to the New York Post. Naturally we have to take everything he says with more than a...
Providence, RI—WPRI 12 released a poll last week purporting to show strong support for an abortion bill held for further study during this past session in the General Assembly. But they failed to mention that the question posed in their survey has almost nothing to do...
By Dave Andrusko A quick post about President Trump’s approval numbers. Rasmussen Reports surveys tend to give the President higher numbers because they do not ask “adults” or “registered voters” but “likely voters.” But what is also true, as was pointed out today by...
By Dave Andrusko The headline to Laura Santhanam’s story read, “How has public opinion about abortion changed since Roe v. Wade?”. Like virtually all the poll-related stories that have cropped up since Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement...
By Dave Andrusko We’ve previously discussed three of Gallup’s promised six-part series on abortion and public opinion (see here; here and here). Among other conclusions, we can say More people still consider abortion morally wrong (49%) than morally acceptable (43%);...
By Dave Andrusko As you would expect, with the looming possibility that Justice Anthony Kennedy would announce his retirement (which he did last week), pro-abortion organizations began cranking out “research” to “prove” that the public is in love with abortion and, in...
By Right to Life of Michigan Every year Gallup does polling on the issue of abortion. They are one of the better polling outfits, because they will ask more specific questions than most others. For the first time since 2012, Gallup asked respondents if abortion should...