So the Pew Center is back, again saying that “support for abortion slips,” again using various vague questions, and again pretending that there are no other polls but its own.
Fortunately, Jon Cohen of the Washington Post saves me from having to write another post like this one:
The reason for skepticism (or at least restraint) is simple: other polls, including the Washington Post-ABC News poll have not picked up such a basic reorientation on this divisive issue…
…Elsewhere the trend is decidedly different, as there has been no fundamental realignment on the question of legal abortion in Post-ABC polls (we ask the identical question). Nor have recent Post polls in Virginia picked up any such change in that key swing state. National polls by the AP, CBS News and the New York Times and Quinnipiac University also show no big increase in opposition to legal abortion.
His post is here.
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When Pew said “support for abortion slips” it’s obviously just reporting its own result, which is what its function is.
Nelson, I’m well aware that Pew is reporting its own polls. That’s my objection. If an organization wants to portray public opinion accurately, it needs to look at more than its own polls, especially when its polls suggest a trend that other polls do not.
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