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Redstate
Obama
losing his gun control
campaign
By Dan Spencer
January 24th, 2013
New
polling from Washington
Post-ABC News and Pew find that President Obama’s campaign to repress
the
Second Amendment right “keep and bear arms” is faltering.
On
January 22, 2013, Pew released
polling results that found the public followed news about Obama’s gun
control
proposals closely and the reaction is mixed. Only 39 percent think
Obama’s
proposals are about right, while 31 percent think the proposals go too
far. Or,
as Politico put it, “39 percent back Obama gun plan.”
Of
course there is the usual
partisan divide. A 57 percent majority of Republicans say the proposals
go too
far, and 25 percent say they are about right. A 55 percent majority of
Democrats (55%) say the proposals are about right, and 10 percent say
they go
too far. Independents are more evenly divided — 36 percent say the
proposals
are about right, while 33 percent say they go too far.
There
is also a gender divide with
Men more likely than women to say Obama’s gun control proposals go too
far — 36
percent vs. 26 percent.
It
is important to note that
despite the “modest” up tick after Newtown, support for gun control
remains
lower than before Obama took office. In April 2008, 58 percent said it
was more
important to control gun ownership, while 37 percent
prioritized protecting gun rights. In a
poll
released January 14, 2013 Pew found that 51 percent say it is more
important to
control gun ownership, while 45 percent
say it is more important to protect gun
rights.
The
new Washington Post-ABC News
poll, released today, finds that support for Obama’s gun control package is lower than it
was for some of the
same steps polled in an ABC/Post poll earlier this month, before
Obama’s repressive
gun control package was announced.
In
an article on the new ABC
News/Washington Post poll, the Washington Post reports that most
congressional
Republicans and some Democrats oppose restrictive new gun control
measures,
such as an assault-weapons ban.
Read
the rest of the article (with
multiple links) at Redstate
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