{"id":51334,"date":"2015-06-01T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/the-us-is-narrowly-pro-choice-again.html"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:45:13","slug":"the-us-is-narrowly-pro-choice-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/the-us-is-narrowly-pro-choice-again.html","title":{"rendered":"The US is (narrowly) Pro-Choice (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at the various data trends, it seems to me that the numbers do an interesting dance with elections and the ascendancy of GOP vs Dem control in national government or influence. It's not so much, I believe, people actually changing their minds, but being influenced on the edges by the rhetoric they listen to.<\/p>\n

If so, that might indicate a rocky time for the Republicans going into the next election cycle. If Obama is a lame-duck president, he's also not seen (except in the rhetoric of those whose fortunes lie with convincing people of it) as an existential threat to America — and, thus, by extension, liberal\/Democratic causes aren't seen in such a dire light.<\/p>\n

Of course, the cycle is still young, and the clown car of GOP candidates hasn't been winnowed down enough to make it an Us vs Them Fight for America's Survival against the Democratic nominee. And both these abortion polling numbers and when you actually start to ask folk questions about real-life examples, indicate that the average American remains very conflicted over abortion — not pleased with the prospect of it being used in what they fear is a libertine fashion, but also leery of government getting too involved in something so personal, and with a mix of opinions when it starts to strike close to home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAmericans Choose “Pro-Choice” for First Time in Seven Years<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Looking at the various data trends, it seems to me that the numbers do an interesting dance with elections and the ascendancy of GOP vs Dem control in national government or influence. It's not so much, I believe, people actually changing their minds, but being influenced on the edges by the rhetoric they listen to. … Continue reading “The US is (narrowly) Pro-Choice (again)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/the-gop-asks-for-help-in-saving-itself-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":51334,"position":0},"title":"The GOP asks for help in saving itself","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Mar-16 5:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But ... wouldn't that create a cycle of dependency, a moral hazard of bailouts and assistance that only encourages electoral moochers and political \"takers\"?Specifically, it appears some conservatives are asking Democrats to vote in open primary states for Marco Rubio, so as to help Fight Back the Trump and save\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10721,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/ideology_vs_consensus_vs.html","url_meta":{"origin":51334,"position":1},"title":"Ideology vs. Consensus vs. Competency vs. Corruption","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Nov-06 8:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"The post-mortems abound ... 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