Are American’s becoming more pro-life?
Kathryn Jean Lopez posts the article at The Corner.
Chris Good parses the findings. Prior to this Gallup poll, Nate Silver had a post parsing numbers.
Dana Goldstein and Scott Lemieux at Tapped.
Michael J. New at The Corner.
UPDATE: Allah Pundit
UPDATE #2: Ed Kilgore at 538
Cityonahillpolitics at Redstate.
UPDATE #3: Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily.
UPDATE #4: Yuval Levin
UPDATE #5: David Frum
UPDATE #6: John McCormack in The Weekly Standard replies to Frum.
UPDATE #7: Ed Kilgore at TNR:
Some readers may remember that back in May, there was a brouhaha over polls that allegedly showed a major shift towards the pro-life position on abortion among Americans. Much of it came from a Gallup poll that suddenly showed a majority of Americans, for the first time ever, considering themselves “pro-life.”
Well, Gallup’s got a new poll out today, and the “pro-life majority” has vanished (more specifically, May’s 51%-42% “pro-life”/”pro-choice” margin is down to 47%-46%). Even aside from the essential emptiness of self-descriptions like “pro-choice” and “pro-life, those of us who thought the May poll was an outlier seem to have been right. But I bet you’re not going to hear nearly as much about it now that it’s harder for conservatives to write those stories about their impending victory in the long struggle over abortion policy.
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