CNN Blames GOP Reps for Women Saying Abortion Most Important Issue

After a Gallup poll showed abortion as the top issue among likely women voters, CNN's Carol Costello suggested Republicans are responsible – and not in a good way.

"Why now? Maybe it's because there's been so much controversial language surrounding the issue lately, like Congressman Todd Akin's 'legitimate rape' comments," said Costello, bringing in the Democratic talking points. [Video below the break. Audio here.]

She added "quite controversial" remarks from Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) and asked "But because these sorts of comments are out there, might that be a reason that women are so concerned about the abortion issue?"

And Costello tarred Mitt Romney with their "controversial" words. "But, Ana, it is true Mitt Romney is pro-life. But he believes there are exceptions for the life of the mother and in cases of rape and incest. So, when you have comments like what Joe Walsh just said, it just paints Republican men in an unrealistic way, perhaps?"

Republican strategist Ana Navarro shot down her argument. "Look, Carol, let me tell you something, if we got rid of every congressman and every legislator who's ever said something that's ridiculous or ignorant, we'd be left with precious few people in the United States Congress," she maintained.

A transcript of the segment, which aired on CNN Newsroom on October 19 at 9:31 a.m. EDT, is as follows:

I find it difficult to accept the results of the poll that plaxes abortion as the #1 concern of women..

Where did they take the poll?
The LA barrio?
The Harlem welfare office?
Southside of Chicago?

Women face the same high gas prices, bad economy, food inflation, etc., etc. as do men.

Barack has given us all equality in suffering from his simplistic socialist policies.

Gallup says that it was an open-ended question asked to female registered voters: "What do you consider the most important issue for women in this election?"

Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 5-11, 2012, on the Gallup Daily election tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,023 registered voters, aged 18 and older, living in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Winsconsin, selected using random-digit-dial sampling.
The data represent a subset of the Gallup Daily election tracking survey for Oct. 5-11, 2012. For results based on the total sample of "swing state" registered voters, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.

The total responses add up to more than 117%, so they must not have been limiting the womento only one response which is odd with the question being "most important issue". Abortion, jobs, healthcare, economy, equality, govt regulation, education, medicare, social security, taxes are the in order responses from the women, ranging from abortion being 39% to taxes being 1%.

I remain puzzled how the question can be "most important issue" singular but the responses add up to 117%. If each of the 1023 gave one answer, then there should be a number one response that is X/1023 of the total and a number 10 response that is X-y/1023 of the total with all responses adding to 100 when converted to percentages.

I also notethat this only in 12 swing states, and that 61% did not pick abortion as their number one issue. Nor is there any indication whether it was pro-life women who were answering abortion as their number one issue. Interestingly, when they broke down the responses asking which candidate would do better on which issue, they did not ask about abortion, their number one response, or they did not choose to publish that result. That strikes me as very odd.

In another section of the survey, and I presume it's the same study, they ask how important unemployment is as an issue and 89% of the women choose it whereas only 60% choose government polices regarding birth control. That doesn't seem to make sense at all.

In short, this report has some 'splainin' to do.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/158069/women-swing-states-gender-specific-priorities.aspx

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