Poll Shows Republicans Pro-Life on Abortion 3-1, But Back Rudy Giuliani
(Hat tip: PewSitter.com)
From LifeNews.com:
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll shows that Republican voters are pro-life on the issue of abortion by over a three to one margin. However, Republican voters, including evangelical voters most opposed to abortion, are still supporting pro-abortion GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani in his bid for the White House.My Comments:
The latest Diageo poll conducted for the Hotline political newspaper, surveyed 604 self-identified Republican voters August 22-26.
Asked about the "most important issue facing the US today," three times as many Republicans said that pro-life concerns were as important as keeping abortion legal.
More specifically, 63 percent of Republicans said they want all or almost all abortions prohibited, while just 20 percent said abortions should be legal. Another 16 percent want them legal but want more limits on them.
Republican voters were also asked what they liked about President Bush, who has signed various pieces of legislation and vetoed a bill to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.
When picking from a list of several political topics, 24 percent of Republicans said they liked his performance in office because of his position on abortion, while just four percent of those who don't approve of his job in office cited his pro-life position as the reason why.
Still, voters nationally backed Rudy Giuliani by a 27 to 17 percentage point margin over likely Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Mitt Romney came in third with 15 percent, John McCain has 12 percent and the rest of the field polled in the low single digits.
Giuliani even led with evangelical voters by a 26-16 percentage point margin over Thompson.
Those numbers come likely because 38 percent of Republicans say Giuliani has the best chance of winning the general election next November and 42 percent say he has the best chance to beat Hillary Clinton, specifically.
However, Republicans appear to acknowledge that Rudy Giuliani's pro-abortion views are out of the mainstream of the party. Just 20 percent say he is the candidate who best represents the general positions of the GOP.
And the GOP march over the cliff continues.
Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
New York Post: "Rudy Winning Over 'Right' People"
Labels: Culture of Death, Elections, Pro-Life, Republicans, RINOs, Rudy
posted by Pro Ecclesia 8:17 AM
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If you surf the sites of various State of Ohio Bloggers you will get the same response. I find this maddening that those Christian conservative republicans would vote for someone because he is more likely to win; where is the logic in this? Where are their norms and culture?
I add one additional reason I believe the same people are swayed by Rudy, which has to do with terrorism and the global war on terrorism. Too many people in this country are afraid of something happening, yet there is truly a lack of critical discernment taking place in regards to this. We are more likely to be killed in a car accident or a lightning strike than a terrorist attack. Yet Christians are buying into this “fear factor.”
I know that if I had the choice between two pro-life candidates, I would vote by default for the one that will keep me safe from terrorism. But in this case, voting for Rudy would cause me deep concern. He might keep those of us outside the womb a little safer (and this is questionable), but those inside the womb are not protected.
One other point when it comes to Christian’s fear of the Islamist; where is our faith in God? Do we believe that God will protect us? Do we believe that through Christ salvation is only possible? So why do we fear such a small problem.
St Teresa of Avila was routinely wakened at night by the devil, at which she would tell him to go away and rolled back to sleep because she knew that through her baptism she was protected by Christ. We need to have the same faith. Maybe if we had the same faith we could defeat the Islamist as well as the abortionist. Maybe if we put our faith in those candidates that believe in life they would win. We have to have faith.
Jay, I am with you; my conscience will not let me vote for him.
Thanks for your great insight, Brian.
I would like to see the poll that asks how may Republicans (or non-Republicans, for that matter) would vote for ANY candidate who was running against Hillary. That might be more accurate than looking at this vs. that Republican, as many of us don't like ANY of them!
On the question of whether we believe God will protect us from terrorism, does God protect whole countries from ANYTHING? I don;t question whether he can, I'm just not certain that that's a valid question to put to God or fellow-believers. We are saved from terrorism as Christians insofar as if we are victims of terrorism, this allows us to join God. This doesn't necessarily mean that don't want our politicians to try to prevent this from happening...
I'm still not buying it, but it is possible that we're seeing the end of the GOP as it abandons it's pro-life principles, and it's pro-life base.
Perhaps a new, truly pro-life party will grow up as an alternative, in much the same way as the Republican Party emerged in the 1850s as a true anti-slavery alternative to the Whigs.
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