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Originally Posted by Startup
I think the democrat's pro-choice stance hurts them in most of the country. The fact is that most of the country does not approve of legal abortion and no matter what a pro-life candidate does, a large amount of the population will vote for him or her. It also didn't help that comes from the state that legalized gay marriage.
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Actually, I don't think that's true as a factual matter. I think we're (as a nation) pretty centrist on this issue. Here's a poll from 2001
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_poll3.htm ,
and this one on Catholics only in 2004
http://www.religiousconsultation.org...l_abortion.htm , and two from 2004 for all people:
http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm and
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11389.xml .
Now, given that I just lambasted the inaccuracies of polling, I'm certainly not one to stand on the polls I just listed. I also found polls that show a majority oppose abortion, but the sources seemed pretty biased. However, I just don't think it would be fair to say that most of the country disapproves of legal abortion. IMHO