Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, new polling finds
Source: CNN
By Ariel Edwards-Levy,
(CNN)Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, according to a set of three polls released over the past week, with key elements of Texas' restrictive new abortion law also garnering relatively little support in the polls.
In a Marquette Law School survey released Wednesday, just 20% of the public favors overturning Roe v. Wade, with 50% opposed to doing so, and another 29% say they haven't heard anything or haven't heard enough to have an opinion on the ruling. In a Monmouth University poll, 62% of Americans say the Supreme Court should leave the decision as is, compared with 31% who want to revisit it. And in a Quinnipiac University survey, Americans say, 67% to 27%, that they generally agree with the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion.
Those results track with polls earlier this year that also found majority opposition to the idea of overturning Roe v. Wade.
The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks, a case that represents a direct challenge to Roe. A decision is expected next summer as the congressional campaign season heats up.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/supreme-court-polling-roe-wade/index.html
PatSeg
(47,260 posts)That is not democracy.
Farmer-Rick
(10,135 posts)This and many more issues like this where the majority's opinion doesn't matter indicates we have an oligarchy? Plutocracy? Theocracy?
Whatever it is, it isn't a democracy.
PatSeg
(47,260 posts)It certainly is beyond anything I could have predicted happening in this country, but then I look around the world and recent history, and I'm sure those people couldn't have anticipated such a takeover happening to them either. Of course, I always knew it was possible, but I naively thought our democracy was strong enough to hold. I'm not so sure anymore. It is probably healthy to live with that awareness though, always vigilant.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Those will definitely bring out Democratic voters.
Chainfire
(17,467 posts)What do you think, that this is a Democracy?
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)They bully loud and long making it appear there are more of them than there really are.
twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)With 29% not aware of anything should they be included?
Igel
(35,274 posts)Then yes, in this case they should be included.
Otherwise should they opt for an opinion there'll be a shift that has no actual reason except to say, "Sorry, did we fail to include nearly 30% of the data? My, bad!"
bucolic_frolic
(43,044 posts)Neighborhood spy rings sure to be a thing
Midnight Writer
(21,712 posts)That gives them an influence belying their size. They will always turn out and they will always vote for the anti-abortion candidate.
We see the same with the gun people.
Bayard
(22,005 posts)The people TFG appointed have their own agenda.
PerceptionManagement
(462 posts)republicans can't win an election legitimately, they've been stealing elections through vote theft. They have stolen America's future
jaxexpat
(6,799 posts)Crowman2009
(2,490 posts)COVID, infrastructure, publicly funded healthcare? naaaaah, we gotta save them fetuses!
Crowman2009
(2,490 posts)Let's see how they like it.
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)HYPOCRITES.............
AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)Like when I say two million signatures doesn't mean anything against one billionaire's checkbook.
TexasTowelie
(111,934 posts)but if you are using your sig line as a campaign slogan, then you might be better saying "representing Arizona correctly" rather than "representing Arizona right" because the unaware might believe you are running a conservative platform.
It isn't much different than when you are riding with a gay friend and giving directions. When you come to an intersection instead of telling the driver to go "straight" it is more politically correct to tell that person to go "forward." While it probably won't start a fight there are some that might view it as insensitive, particularly if that person only recently came to terms with their sexuality.
There is also a spelling error in your sig line.
DownriverDem
(6,226 posts)This was the message of 2016.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)They had their chance, but were too stupid to take it and make the most of it. They listened to Sarandon (et al) and believed the lies that Hillary was the Great Satan who'd start WWIII.
The gullibility of low-information voters continues to astound me. People like Sarandon and Stein (and other like-minded people with extreme and dangerous views) find it very easy to manipulate them. Their kneecapping of Hillary made Trump's job easier for him.
This is on you, Sue. Own it.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)betsuni
(25,376 posts)been politically active for many decades.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)So has Barbra Streisand.
Why is Susan targeted for this much hatred? I don't see people like Nugent, Kid Rock, the Baldwin brother no one remembers, or any celebrity on that side targeted?
Nugent is also anti-choice. Why not say things like "Thanks Nugent for working to strip a woman's right to choose, you miserable excuse for a human being?"
betsuni
(25,376 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)I don't normally attack liberals with this much hatred. I may disagree with some things they say, but I don't attack people on my side.
I just really want to know, other than attacking HRC on the campaign, what she has done that really moved the pendulum. As I see, she is a gadfly and most gadflies are ignored, not matter how loud they are, but a majority of voters on our side.
It's only the "burn everything down" nihilists that listen, and we lost them years ago.
George II
(67,782 posts)d_b
(7,462 posts)Especially not her.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,919 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)And she's on the courts now too? She's going to vote down abortion with her vote in the court system?
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,919 posts)TFG got to appoint three SCOTUS justices which is why Roe is in danger. Sarandon supported Stein and Stein voters were the margin of victory for TFG.
A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for TFG
Link to tweet
AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)nihilists. Even without Sarandon, I believe they would have voted Stein, since they are more at war with the Democrats (who they feel betrayed them for not taking up their fringe left wing platform) than the Republicans (who are against them completely).
I've dealt with those types. They do not believe in compromise. They do not believe in governance. They believe "you are with me, or I will harass you at all times," usually over one issue. I've run into those in my campaign.
No amount of taking to them will change their minds simply because their minds are made up and anything you say is turned around as an attack and as a verification of their idea that the Democrat is the bigger enemy than the Republican.
Some of what Sarandon says I agree with, most I do not. But I do not see how celebrities truly influence politics. It's similar to a celebrity endorsing a product. Just because they are endorsing it doesn't mean I'm going to buy it.
I may be looking at her a different way (and some may call it naive), but I will say this: If I win and go into higher office, like US House or Senate, or the AZ Governor, Sarandon will not be someone I would seek an endorsement from. Some of what she says, I agree. But she is too rigid in her beliefs. I view her a left wing version of the religious right that Barry Goldwater warned the Republicans to avoid.
I don't like absolutes, personally. There are always shades of gray. When I've sat down with Sarandon-types to talk, all I say is "convince me I'm wrong." It usually devolves in "you're just part of the problem" or "you've sold out to the Democratic Party" and it all dies.
mcar
(42,278 posts)She's safe in her tony enclaves and doesn't give a shite to real people.
Fck her and her fellow revolutionaries.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)twitter.com/janeosanders/status/796107063327854592
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,919 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)third party, is this really unexpected?
dalton99a
(81,392 posts)Response to dalton99a (Reply #23)
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LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,044 posts)but it did repeal it
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I think we need to make that term very popular. Joe coined it in one of his speeches.
JohnnyRingo
(18,618 posts)They knew better in 1970, and they know better now.
Stacked courts are their only avenue.