Word: polling
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Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...
...sometime before mid-October. One legislator has already filed a bill mirroring the Missouri law upheld by the Supreme Court; pro-lifers plan to introduce further measures, including one allowing fathers to intervene in abortion decisions. But it is far from certain that any restrictions will be enacted. A poll in May found that 59% of Florida voters and 51% of state legislators consider abortion a private matter. Pro-choice Democrats will try to bottle up restrictive bills in committees, and if they fail, their allies will argue in court that a 1980 amendment to the state constitution spelling...
Until now, abortion has been a single-issue vote only for pro-lifers, but that may be changing. A poll taken for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 24% are so opposed to abortion that they would never support candidates who favor it regardless of their stands on other issues. But that hard core of pro-life sentiment is slightly outnumbered by the 32% who say they would never vote for an office-seeker who advocates restricting a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The poll also found that 57% do not believe that the court...
...removing the debate from the judiciary to the state legislatures, the two sides may be able to pull each other, grudgingly, into the great middle where the TIME poll and other surveys show most Americans reside, tolerating for better or worse the ambiguity the issue carries with it. A quiet majority favor choice in the first stages of pregnancy but are nonetheless deeply troubled. Many intuitively recognize that as a fetus grows, so does society's obligation to protect it. Precisely where that obligation begins or ends remains the imponderable. But whoever can capture those still groping for an answer...
...life forces, energized by the prospect of outlawing abortions, and pro- choice activists, galvanized by the fear of losing their rights, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. -- A new TIME poll finds that a majority of Americans want abortions to remain legal and disagree with the court's decision. -- Five states where the battle is hottest...