Category: Polling

By Dave Andrusko A poll of 950 likely Missouri voters conducted by St. Louis University/YouGov found that 56% of Missourians support HB 126, the “Heartbeat Bill” passed by the Missouri General Assembly in 2019. Only 33% did not agree in a poll conducted July 19-29. The question (one among many) asked whether the respondent agreed or …

By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life News Today posts many stories about what public opinion polls supposedly reveal about Americans’ views on abortion. Why?  For many reasons, but primarily (a) to reinforce the truth, hidden in plain sight because it is obscured by the major media, that we are much closer to where the …

By Dave Andrusko On Friday we took a deep dive into the new AP-NORC poll headlined “Most say restrict abortion after 1st trimester.” The core of their analysis was neatly summarized in one paragraph: 61% of Americans say abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances in the first trimester of a pregnancy. However, …

By Dave Andrusko If ever “how” you say something dramatically influences the outcome, it would surely be the wording used in abortion polling. Having said that, let’s jump right into Gallup’s latest abortion poll released yesterday. We’re going to discuss the question of whether abortion is morally acceptable or morally wrong. Then we’ll look at …

By Dave Andrusko Like Cicadas, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt emerges (in this case, every couple of years) to take a look at polling on the abortion issue. (See our take in 2017 and 2019). I shouldn’t be too hard because Leonhardt evidences a fairness—a willingness to look at the “science,” you might say—rather …

By Dave Andrusko As I’m waiting for Gallup’s annual series of abortion polls to begin, and in light of congressional Democrats refusal to allow debate on any abortion proposal, I’m looking ahead by looking back at some of what we’ve written. Writing for Gallup, Lydia Saad offered this summary: [T]he finding that 70% of Americans either …

By Dave Andrusko As NRL News Today has discussed multiple times, it is much more useful—and accurate—to read Gallup’s polls on abortion than Pew Research’s. The former is much more nuanced and fine-tuned than the latter because it probes beneath initial more global responses (more about that below). So when you read Pew Research’s, “Today, …

By Dave Andrusko We (or at least I do) tend to focus most of our attention on the unmitigated pro-abortion outpourings from national media outlets, particularly their polling. You’d think it would be hard to compete with the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post and three major television networks. But the …

By Dave Andrusko Elsewhere today we write about a stupendously obvious conclusion reached by Pew Research: that “Americans far more likely to say evangelicals will lose influence, rather than gain it, under Biden.”  Why wouldn’t they—lose influence that is– and the public correctly anticipate that a resolutely pro-abortion administration would not warmly embrace them? After …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This story from a year ago in NRL News Today is symptomatic of what happens when rabidly pro-abortion newspapers forgo even a pretense of objectivity when discussing pro-life officeholders. I’ll do my best not to show even a tenth of how annoyed I am by two findings in particular from …

“Three quarters of Americans, including a majority who identify as prochoice, want significant restrictions on abortion.” WASHINGTON – Each January, the Knights of Columbus (KOC) release their annual poll on Americans’ opinions on abortion. They did so today, and the results are not only very encouraging, the poll probes areas no other survey takes the …

23% of voters cited abortion and voted pro-life31.9% heard from National Right to Life WASHINGTON – A post-election poll of voters in the 2020 election found that the issue of abortion once again played a key role in the presidential and congressional elections, and that National Right to Life and its state affiliates were key …