l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 Exclusive Poll: 74% of Adults Believe Religious Freedom Trumps ObamaCare
by Mike Flynn
Barack Obama's pavlovian adherence to a progressive worldview has sparked an
unexpected challenge to his reelection hopes: his administration's "war" on
the Catholic Church. Earlier this year, the Obama Administration,
implementing ObamaCare, finalized regulations that would require all
employers, including religious institutions, to provide free access to
contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilizations. Under the rule,
religious institutions would be required to provide these services, which
went against their religious beliefs, to all their employees. And, they
would have to absorb the full cost of these services. Breitbart News has
access to a poll suggesting this plan is backfiring badly for the Obama
Administration.
The Knights of Columbus, a social organization of Catholics, recently
commissioned a nation-wide poll to gauge support for the Obama
Administration's view. The poll, conducted by the respected Marist polling
firm, interviewed 1,600 adults between May 10-14. In a shock result, 74% of
adults said that freedom of religion should take precedence over government
laws. A solid majority of adults all felt that religious providers should be
able to opt out of providing abortions, contraceptives or sterilizations.
The poll should send shudders through the Obama campaign.
Since I have the polling portfolio at Breitbart, I want to stress that this
was a poll of adults. As I've written recently, polls of adults give Dem
positions a net 7-point bias. Furthermore, the partisan make-up of the poll
assumes a lower turnout for the GOP than 2008. In other words, the poll was
skewed towards the Democrat position. Even then, the results are devastating
to the Obama Administration. A more realistic voter, partisan screen would
have revealed how deeply unpopular Obama's positions are.
Interestingly, the one demographic group that felt most strongly that
religious freedom should trump government law was women.
We'll have more to say about this poll over the next few days. In the
meantime, the full results are below. I understand that coastal elites like
to pretend that their views are the more sophisticated, but to many actual
voters their views are built on real, concrete beliefs. |
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