A new Pew poll reveals that support for abortion has faded in recent months. These results are very sensitive to the way the question is posed, but the trend is interesting. Support for legal abortion is at 47%, just one point higher than its all-time low (set this past July). Opposition is at an all-time high at 45%. The difference in well within the sampling error, making it a statistical tie (although, again, I think the trend is more interesting than the absolute numbers).
Support for abortion has slipped considerably in the last year:
It’s hard to guess what is driving the variation (particularly the strange dip in August 2001), but the overall trend is clear.
Another interesting result is that the importance of the abortion issue has dropped dramatically among abortion supporters, but not among opponents. Also, conservative Republicans are the best informed about abortion: 75% were able to identify President Obama’s view on abortion correctly. Moderate Democrats are the least well informed; only 49% could identify the president’s view correctly.
(Via the Corner.)
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