[CORRECTION: Please see this post for new information I received on this poll. The assumption I made to come up with the even spit among party affiliation was wrong, and I have sticken the incorrect parts of this post. I apologize to my readers and the Argus Leader.]
Today the Argus Leader promoted on their front-page a poll that stated the no votes on referred law 6 was leading the yes votes 52 to 42. I did some math and determined that the 800 person sample broke down to 268 Republican, 266 Democrat and 266 Independent. But that is not how the actual voter registration pool breaks down. In the 2004 pool, Independents amounted to less than 15% versus the 33% used in the Argus Leader poll. And Republicans were nearly 50%, which is far more than the 33% used in the poll. This is a common technique used by the media to promote the false conclusion that most people think like Democrats.
Another interesting conclusion one can gather from the details of the poll is that abortion is not really a woman’s rights issue. 45% of women support the ban, but only 48% oppose the ban (within the margin of error). Whereas only 39% of men support the ban, but a majority of 56% does not support the ban. It is the men who are leading the opposition to the ban, not women. Clearly the message that abortion harms women is being heard by women. But it is the men who could care less about the harm to women and continue to want women to get abortions. Wonder why?
If the media would report on that truth, and stop with the promotion of abortion-on-demand advocates using the victims of rape as political pawns to maintain their abortion-on-demand multi-million dollar business.
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