| The Complicated Politics of Abortion |
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Abortion has emerged as an issue in the 2012 presidential race, following Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin's controversial comments about abortion and "legitimate rape." Pew Research Center surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012 found that narrow majorities of the public have consistently said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. These surveys also found that abortion is viewed as a much more important issue by voters opposed to legal abortion than by those who think it should be legal in all or most cases. READ MORE AT PEOPLE-PRESS.ORG > |
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AUG. 19 - THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
U.S. government and politics no longer run by WASPs. Does it matter?
An article discusses the greater religious diversity among this year's candidates for president and vice president and notes that for the first time in history, none of the major party candidates for those positions is a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The article quotes a recent Pew Forum survey that found that there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates' respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections. |
