NARAL Poll Shows Abortion Issue Could Push Independents and Pro-Choice Republicans to Obama
The poll found if voters know the candidates' stances, they choose Obama over McCain
Reader Comments
Roe v Wade used as fear tactic
I voted for Jimmy Carter. I voted for Bill Clinton. I voted for Al Gore. I even voted for John Kerry! My choice for President this year is Hillary Clinton. If she is not the Presidential nominee this year, I will vote for John McCain.
Barack Obama is an inexperienced Chicago Machine Democrat with many questionable associates and very few qualifications to be President of the United States. He has even moved the DNC headquarters to Chicago. Obama and his supporters are hoping that in November the same fear tactics that worked for the DNC in the past will work for him as well. He hopes the election turns on the fear of Hillary Clinton supporters that Roe v Wade will be overturned by the court. He hopes voters forget that the DNC selected him as their nominee. He hopes they forget what happened to the votes in Michigan and Florida. We will not forget.
John McCain a moderate and an independent thinker. I admire the way he can work across party lines in the US Senate. John McCain offers proven leadership I can trust. I now consider myself to be an Independent. You can call me a Republican if you want to but that does not make it true. Good-bye DNC.
Former Clinton Supporters
The "former Clinton supporters who never voted for a Republican in their lives but are now going to vote for McCain" are, in fact, Republicans.
NARAL Poll
This poll is just a fund-raising and PR gimmick for NARAL. The questions were designed to get the responses NARAL wanted. Then it could scare pro-choice women into donating money to NARAL under the guise that women need to be educated on the candidates' stances on abortion and Roe v. Wade. The public is not stupid. Anyone who is not brain-dead already knows the candidates' positions on abortion.
NARAL knows it has alienated many of its long-time supporters by endorsing a candidate who is wimpy on abortion-rights over a long term strong supporter of abortion rights. The purpose of this poll and NARAL's publicity about is to get these women back into the NARAL fold by scaring them into believing that they must donate to NARAL or risk losing Roe v Wade.
Abortion Issue
I don't understand the Clinton supporters that would stand up for Mccain after seeing the damage the Republican party has done to OUR country for the past 8 years. They support the Oil companies profits, the Corporations that send jobs to other countries just to make a buck. They want to take away the right of women to control their own decisions. They choose religion over science in our schools. The middle class has all but disappeared. Even Hillary knows the damage that 4 more years of Republican rule could mean for us. I would vote for Mickey Mouse before I would support the Republican party. History will judge America, not by how it treats the wealthiest citizens, but by how it treats its poor, its veterans, and its neighbors.
Naral's poll
I agree. NARAL compromised the organization to worship at the feet of Obama and turned its back on a well proven pro-choice candidate. It has lost all credibility with many of its long term backers and any poll it puts out is pre-determined. Why did this magazine bother to report on NARAL's poll? Or is this magazine just another mouth piece for Obama?
I have never supported a Republican for president, but this year, John McCain has my vote. Obama is an empty shirt who is running on the fanaticism of internet supporters and media obsession. No experience, no track record, no foundation coalitions-just media hype and a silver tongue. My husband and I, along with millions of other Clinton supporters, will never vote for Obama. McCain has our vote as a trusted leader and war hero. If the Democratic Senate can not stop anti-choice judge appointments, shame on them. And when President McCain takes office, then we will see whether Obama can do anything but run for office.
Abortion the main issue? NOT!!
Abortion is going to be come the defining issue to change votes? NOT! Here the pollsters go again, trying to make it seem like the American public has absolutely no brains, and therefore must be led by the nose by the Democrat party to the polls in the media's way too obvious effort to annoint Obama as the Holy Saviour of Man. I am now reminded of the famous Apple commercial in 1984 that showed a woan athlete running into the hall of drones and smashing forever the visage of the Holy Controller. The pircture I have now is Obama's face in the screen as he tries to mesmorize us with pandering and vacusous rhetoric.
The American people are more interested in ending the war on favorable terms; setting the economy back on its reliable and steady path; developing both a total health care system and a retirment system that is fair and simple to use. Half of the war in IRAQ could have been supported just with the money in Medicare that was in fradulent claims. Everywhere the people look, prices are going, wages are stagnant, and the Democrat part wants to raise taxes?? Sound bites aside, any changes in tax rates that changes the law and adds more money to the Treasury, IS A TAX INCREASE!! The Bush Tax cuts were reducing the Clinton Tax Increases! As a married person I did NOT enjoy paying a penalty becasue of that union.
Anybody who votes for Obama strictly becasue of the Right to Choose issue is a fool - you have to vote the entire package. And the entire package incldues both experience and maturity. You choose which one fits.
Correct last post
Darn, I hate typos. End of first sentence in second paragraph of last post should read " pro-baby-murder platform is NOT" the best strategy"-----inserting important word "NOT" Sorry for sloppy error..
Roe is precarious, but not best campaign issue
It is true that McCain has spoken to pro-life groups and promised to nominate very conservative Supreme Court Justices, stating that the recently appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito are examples who "completely meet his criteria". They were, coincidentally, the fourth and fifth Catholic justices, joining Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy, three Catholics who were already there. So now, you have five guys (aka, MEN) on the Court for life from a church that opposes abortion, and for that matter, opposes any form of birth control whatsoever. They can already overturn Roe at any time going forward, although it's said Kennedy "probably" won't if he gets a case. But no one really knows. If you get another McCain appointment, then you CAN know for sure. Roe WILL BE overturned or weakened at first opportunity of an appropriate case being manufactured by conservatives.
Although I do not believe Roe should be overturned, I also believe that running Obama on what conservatives will call a pro-baby-murder platform is the best strategy. Rather there are plenty of other reasons for WOMEN in particular to oppose McCain's idea of judicial philosophy. The best of these was the Lilly Ledbetter case from last term where the Catholic gang found that a woman could not sue for years of wage discrimination on gender by Goodyear Tire because she did not file a claim within 180 days of the first discriminatory check. NEVER MIND THAT PAYROLL WAS SECRET AND SHE DID NOT KNOW IN THE FIRST 180 DAYS THAT SHE WAS BEING PAID LESS THAN ALL THE MEN IN THE SAME JOB.
Women, indeed, need to be "educated" about McCain and the Supreme Court.
But they are already being "slapped" plenty. It's not just about Roe. There is much, much more involved.
