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This poll would suggest a 5% advantage to pro-life candidates for voters who consider abortion an important issue.
In a press release, National Right to Life said that that this difference is even greater in states where its political committees were most actively involved. When only including those states, 27% of voters said that the abortion issue affected their vote and voted for candidates who oppose abortion. Only 16% of voters in those states said abortion affected their vote and voted for candidates who favor abortion. The pro-life advantage in that state was 11%, over twice the national advantage.
The National Right to Life press release reads,
"Despite being vastly outspent by pro-abortion organizations such as Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List, pro-life candidates won last Tuesday by significant margins. There were 58 races in which a candidate supported by National Right to Life was running against a candidate supported by the pro-abortion PAC EMILY’s List. Forty (or 71%) of the National Right to Life-supported candidates won. Two races remain outstanding, with the pro-life candidate currently leading in both."
“The abortion issue has played a key role in every major election since Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980,” said Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president. “As we witnessed last Tuesday, in election after election, National Right to Life, with its network of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, helped provide the margin of victory for pro-life candidates.”
