Polling Propaganda

A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll finds that Democrats are leading in the generic congressional ballot question by four points. The poll also found these surprising figures: 16% of public said abortion was their most important issue while 11% said inflation was their top concern. 

If anyone in politics actually believes that more people are more concerned about abortion than inflation, they should go into another line of work.

But I want to point out something else that I am seeing in virtually every other poll as well. When pollsters ask people if abortion is an important issue to them and they say "yes," the media say, "Look at that big number of people angry at the GOP/Supreme Court over abortion."

I hope you can see through that. 

The country is almost 50/50 on abortion. So, if 16% say abortion is their most important issue, it's likely that half of that number includes people who are pro-life and who are upset that Biden and congressional liberals are trying to force abortion on demand in every state in the country. Half are probably people who want them to do that.  

But the reason the media spin the polls the way they are is because they know how easy it is to frighten establishment Republicans. 

They are trying to browbeat them into running away from the Dobbs victory. They want them to apologize for the Dobbs victory. And they want them to only talk about the economy.

By the way, there's a nugget in the latest Washington Post poll that should stiffen conservative spines.

The poll found a huge enthusiasm gap between pro-life and pro-abortion voters, with pro-life voters being 11-points more likely to vote than pro-abortion voters, and those who supported the Dobbs decision were 18-points more likely to vote than those who opposed it.