Despite speculation the recent leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a landmark abortion would politically help Democrats, and speculation it was leaked to boost Democrat turnout in November’s elections for U.S. Congress, a new CNN poll finds.
In the last CNN poll conducted before the leak, Republicans held a one percent lead over Democrats, 45 percent to 44 percent on the question of which party voters nationwide planned to support in their congressional district.
The latest poll, conducted May 3-5 after the leak, found the lead has grown to seven percent. Support for the Republican candidate grew to 49 percent while support for the Democrat fell to 42 percent.
The poll finds that while Democrat voters were now seven percent more likely to say they were enthusiastic to vote, voter enthusiasm was also up nine percent among Republicans.
The gap was even greater when measuring opinion on Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision making abortion a federally-protected right, which would be overturned if the leaked draft is the prevailing side in an abortion case the Court is currently considering.
Among voters who said they would be “sad” if Roe were overturned, 20 percent reported they were “extremely or very enthusiastic” to vote.
But among voters who said they would be “happy” if Roe were overturned, 38 percent reported they were “extremely or very enthusiastic” to vote.
The poll dashes hopes by liberals that the leak would help them overcome plunging support from voters concerned about rising inflation. In the days after the leak the abortion lobby attempted to warn the Court they had “poked a bear” and “awakened a sleeping giant.”
Traditionally, trying to make an election a referendum on abortion has backfired on Democrats.
In 2014 Texas Democrats nominated State Senator Wendy Davis as their nominee for governor.
Davis, who had become a national media celebrity for leading a filibuster of a pro-life bill, raked in millions of dollars from liberals across the country.
Democrats predicted that focusing the election on abortion would improve on their 42% and “turn Texas blue” showing in the previous election for governor, by spark massive support from women rising up to defend “choice.”
Instead, Davis crashed and burned with just 38% against Greg Abbott, their worst showing in a two-way race since then-Governor George W. Bush’s re-election.
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Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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This kind of thing keeps happening to the Democrats because they are controlled by the radical socialist fringe in their party, and the members of that fringe live in a bubble that actually believes most Americans agree with them. Since, in fact, most Americans disagree with them, they are constantly shooting themselves in the foot and then looking for the blame in places where it doesn’t lie.
The only things Democ rats are good at is rigging elections and lying about their accomplishments.
When Trump was elected all the predictions Democ rats made did not come true.
When Biden took the White House all the predictions that the Republicans made have come true.
People who believe that life begins at conception should have a chance to have their voices heard as this is when life begins for all human beings!
Because the majority of Americans in survey after survey support Roe vs Wade, any attempt by the Republicans to undo it will overturned. This is 2022, not 1952.
Joe Biden is a completely out of touch Democrat fossil, like Kamala, Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer and Clyburn!
Braindead Biden is the Pudding Eating Puuuuutz in Chief!
The ‘Hermit of Loretto’, a prophet in the 1980s who is now dead, proclaimed that Donald J. Trump would be elected President for two terms and bring the American people back to God.
(Look up the ‘Hermit of Loretto’ on the internet to learn about him and his prophetic words)
It appears that President Trump is well on his way in fulfilling that prophecy, as millions of Americans, especially the young, are coming back to God in droves, and are deadly against abortion, that kills a developing human baby in its mother’s womb, that God had given a soul to at conception, which is when all doctors and scientists claim that human life begins, as well as all life.
Over 70% of the American people are now against abortion, which they consider a great mortal sin, and President Trump had something to do with that in his first four-year term in office, and the American people are looking forward to President Trump doing even more for them in bringing them back to God during his second four-year term in office.
The American people have learned that the Democrats are anti-God, because they constantly go against many of God’s teachings, precepts, and mandates that are written in the Bible, and this will constantly reduce the number of votes that they will receive, but they are too ignorant to realize this.
This proves that Demon-crats live in a fantasy world of their own creation.
Democrats are pushing in Mexican immigrants like there’s no tomorrow. They’re Pro Life and Pro family.
And you believe CNN, Biden’s pattern for his “Ministry of Truth?” CNN is still hoping to scare Democrats to get out the vote against Christian Americans.
Of course, when you have Dominion voting machines in your hip-pocket, what difference does the truth make?