Missouri: Both Akin and Romney regain footing
Liberal news outlet Slate has noticed with disbelief that Missouri Republican pro-life U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin “has crept back into the Missouri Senate race,” which three polls have now concluded.
A Family Research Council poll conducted August 27-28 found Akin had pulled ahead of Democrat pro-abortion incumbent Claire McCaskill 45-42% after a precipitous drop following an unfortunate explanation for his rape/incest exception to abortion.
But that was our side. When Democrat pollster Public Policy Polling found in a flash poll on August 20, the day after Akin made his infamous remark, that Akin still held a slight 44-43% lead, PPP was accused by his side of skewing the results “to ensure Akin stays in, so that he can get pummeled in November.”
But PPP’s second poll, conducted August 28 and 29, had nearly the same findings: McCaskill ahead by only a hair, 44-43%. According to Poll Tracker, here is how the race stands. Click to enlarge…
Meanwhile, according to Real Clear Politics, Romney is likewise gaining momentum in Missouri, after slipping following the Akin kerfuffle…
A sure sign McCaskill believes the polls is that she maintained her decision to skip the Democratic National Convention. She had previously indicated she needed to stay put and campaign, which many saw as an attempt to distance herself from President Obama, who is unpopular back home.
But after the Akin flak, and in light of the Democrats’ focus on abortion and Akin, McCaskill would have been the “belle of the ball” had she changed her mind and attended the DNC.
Were the Akin comment that helpful to McCaskill’s campaign, she would have seized on the opportunity to make more of it.
But she didn’t, because she knows she’s still in trouble.
As are Republicans who hit the panic button way too soon, because they’re terrified of feminists and the A-word. As Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee ED Guy Cecil said of Akin in Charlotte, “I think that his obituary was written prematurely.”
Here was Akin’s first television interview following the controversy, on Neil Cavuto September 5. Akin gives a strong pro-life statement at the end, confirming his belief that life begins at conception and should not be snuffed because a baby’s parent is a sexual perpetrator…
Donate to Akin’s campaign here. The Republican Party establishment has abandoned him, and he’s apparently in financial trouble. We must stand by him.
[Top screen shot via Fox News; bottom photo via Washington Post]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Why is incest always connected to rape when abortion is discussed?
What do these two things necessarily have in common?
The lack of GOP financial support is definitely not right. Shame on the GOP for not supporting Akin.
I think the GOP would show huge backbone, guts and maturity if they decided to fund Mr. Akin’s campaign.
I still can’t stand Akin, and think he’s a huge liability for the pro-life cause. I can only hope he really educates himself and proves me wrong.
Me neither, Jack, but it sure is nice to watch the darling of the pro-abortion groups flounder around in the polls. :) Abortion isn’t so nice, now is it, pro-aborts? Not such a winning issue anymore, huh?
I liked Todd Akin campaign’s “Six Seconds” video. It sums up how lopsided our perspective can become.
https://secure.piryx.com/donate/2uBcBkAC/Todd-Akin-for-U-S-Senate/newt
“Abortion isn’t so nice, now is it, pro-aborts? Not such a winning issue anymore, huh”
Depends on where you are. In my neck of the North East woods, it’s a winner and still champion!
CC, hence why I’m a happy Southerner. :) But go ahead – gloat about how murdering innocents is a winner and champion. Love wins in the end, CC, and I sure hope you’re on our side then.
kin’s mind-bogglingly stupid comments on rape are not the only thing which make him so contemptible. The other day on you tube, I sw an interview with him from taken from a TV program where he stated that morning after pills, the very thing which can PREVENT so many surgical abortions, should be illegal.
What kind of blithering idiot want to make contraceptives illegal while also being adamantly anti-choice? Akin has absolutley no business serving in any politicla position.
1. Availability of the morning after pill probably doesn’t impact surgical abortion rates. This is rarely admitted by emergency contraception proponents.
http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824%2804%2900022-8/abstract
http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824%2805%2900069-7/abstract
2. The morning after pill (Plan B, ella is a different story) probably doesn’t have any post-fertilization effects (therefore shouldn’t be illegal). This is rarely admitted by emergency contraception opponents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11747872?dopt=abstractplus
Does ANYONE understand why rape and incest are so often paired as exceptional situations in which abortion might be legally permitted?
CC: “Abortion isn’t so nice, now is it, pro-aborts? Not such a winning issue anymore, huh” Depends on where you are. In my neck of the North East woods, it’s a winner and still champion!
You sure got suckered there. You forgot to adjust your footing and respond that choice is champion, CC. A Freudian slip — you deem abortion itself “a winner.”
Life is for chumps, right?
Denise,
Yes. Because people have trouble with separating the act that causes abortion from the child. That’s the same reason why I talk to “pro-choice” people day-in/day-out who are totally for “choice” in situations where it was just a one-time, unlucky turn of events, but totally against it for “irresponsible whores” (their words, not mine) who use “abortion as birth control”.
Sleeping around is icky, okay? And those babies shouldn’t have to pay for bad mommies’ naughty behaviors! But “safe sex” should be totally safe, and they feel bad that Responsible Mommy should have to “suffer the consequences” when it(baby) was just an accident, or a mean baby that comes from something bad and mean like rape.
They don’t get that these are CHILDREN being killed in abortions, not sex acts.
Oops. That should be”adamantly anti-choice”. It’s wrong to bring children into the world who are doomed to lives of abject poverty, hunger,malnutrition, abuse,neglect,
lack of education, health care, and job opportunity when they grow up.
When poor women find the,mselves in tese awful adverse circumstances, they will have abortions whether they are loegal or not.
Calling Akin an idiot is an understatement ! I hope he will be voted out of office . PERMANENTLY ! I never vote for anti-choice politicians , and never will.
The studies repeatedly show that access to emergency contraception does not impact abortion rates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception#Relationship_to_high_risk_sex_and_abortion
Emergency contraception proponents will rarely admit this.
The research also suggests that Plan B doesn’t have any post-fertilization effects:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2010/WHO_RHR_HRP_10.06_eng.pdf
Emergency contraception opponents will rarely admit this.
Is it wrong to kill born children that you believe “are doomed to lives of abject poverty, hunger,malnutrition, abuse,neglect, lack of education, health care, and job opportunity when they grow up”? If not, why?
You could make the “they’ll do it anyway” claim about any violent act. Laws against rape don’t stop all rapes from happening. You’ll need a stronger argument if you want the law to allow a certain class of human beings to be killed without justification.
To Robert Berger, these words you wrote, will come back to convict you, in His court! We are responsible for every word written or spoken! If you speak life, life is yours, if you speak death……you figure out the rest as you think you are a god……..
Don’t fear anyone on this blog….FEAR HIM who can cast you into hell!
If you need prayer to accept Jesus, please respond!
@ X: Are they assuming that a female pregnant incest was in fact raped by her father?
That would obviously leave out a 40-year-old woman pregnant by a 20-year-old son or a woman impregnated through consensual incest with her brother.
Is the incest exception really just the rape exception?
@ X: Although you consider me “pro-abort,” I’m utterly appalled by the high abortion rate in this country and by the fact that there has been no DRAMATIC decrease in the many years since Roe v. Wade.
I believe the way to decrease abortion is to decrease DEMAND through 3 means:
1) Encouraging abstinence.
2) Improved contraception.
3) Encouraging sexual alternatives that can’t lead to pregnancy.
I myself have never had an abortion and was very scared of it growing up.
“Son of the Morning,” a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, deals with pregnancy through rape. 15-year-old Elsa Vickery is set upon by a group of men and gang-raped. She must stumble home without her underpants and with blood streaming down her legs and a little finger pulled out of its socket. She doesn’t want an abortion but accepts the pregnancy. During it, she is isolated because people are so embarrassed to be around her.
The child born of that gang attack grows up to be a famous Christian minister.
I get to enjoy a rare chance to agree with Denise Noe! YES! — We must work to reduce the demand for abortion.
We do need laws to protect the innocent children from those who would harm them…. but we also need change the culture that demands abortion in the first place. It is similar to the slavery/civil rights issue: The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal, but it was a century later before African-Americans got the fullness of dignity that their humanity deserves.
Unfortunately, there can never be an ”improved contraception” alternative. There is a structural problem with contraception: Whenever we teach people that they are “safe,” they respond by engaging in riskier behaviors.
As part of the “encourage abstinence” strategy, we have to include a stark truth: Contraception is never as effective as it promises to be.
– If you are having sex, you might get pregnant.
– If you and your partner are not totally faithful, you might get disease.
Denise Noe says:
Does ANYONE understand why rape and incest are so often paired as exceptional situations in which abortion might be legally permitted?
Because these are disgusting, emotional, heart-tugging exceptions that distract us from the harsher truth: Abortion kills an innocent child.
By diverting attention toward the mother-as-victim, abortion advocates hope that we will forget about the child.