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CBS Buries Poll Finding 57% Against ObamaCare Mandate on Website

By Matthew Balan | March 13, 2012 | 18:20

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Almost a month after touting on-air their poll finding that 61% of Catholics supposedly backed President Obama's controversial birth control mandate, CBS failed to mention their most recent poll that found that 57% are now against the regulation. The network devoted an article to the new poll statistic on their website, but failed to cover it on their morning and evening newscasts Monday into Tuesday.

Instead, CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning did some damage control on behalf of the President, downplaying his "all-time low" approval number and claiming that "there's little that he [Obama] can do...in the short term to affect gas prices, and gas prices hurts his political chances," as anchor Charlie Rose put it. Their poll partners at the New York Times also buried the finding in their front-page article on the poll, and spun it by suggesting that women were "split" on the controversy.

Writer Lucy Madison explained in the Tuesday CBSNews.com article, "Poll: Most say employers should be allowed not to cover contraception," that "most Americans believe there should be an exception for employers who may have a moral or religious objection to covering birth control for their employees....When asked specifically about religiously-affiliated employers, 57 percent of Americans said they should be able to opt out of the mandate if they have religious or moral objections. Thirty-six percent said such organizations should have to cover birth control."

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The poll's question in March asked, "What about for religiously-affiliated employers, such as a hospital or university? Do you think their health insurance plans should have to cover the full costs of birth control for their female employees, or should they be allowed to opt out of covering that based on religious or moral objections?" Back in February, however, the media outlets omitted the religious liberty component to the issue in their question: "What about for religiously-affiliated employers, such as a hospital or university? Do you support or oppose a recent federal requirement that their health insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control for their female employees?"

The February 14, 2012 edition of CBS Evening News, along with CBS This Morning the following day, played up how "61% overall told us they approve of that policy [the HHS mandate]. The number was exactly the same for Catholic respondents." On the other hand, a poll released the same week by the Pew Research Center, which mentioned the First Amendment/conscience issue in its question, found that "55% of Catholics who have heard about the [mandate] support an exemption to it...[and] Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week, 63% support an exemption."

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'Twas Such An Awful Sight I Had To Mute Him Out

Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:00pm.

Alan Colmes cherry picked the polls helpful to his talking points on O'Reilly tonight, and put down the ones he didn't like. If the left can't manipulate a poll, they will obfuscate it. It's what they do to win, cheat.

Colmes should lay down and stay there. He looks like he's dead.

To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html

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Maybe they can link to this

Submitted by GregE on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:23pm.

President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/cb...

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And the stupid law has not

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:47pm.

And the stupid law has not gone out of first gear yet. Just think when it goes into full speed.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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I pray the who law will be

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:50pm.

I pray the who law will be struck down. If not then we are most likely saddled with the first brick among many in our socialist wall.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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I don't know Dan

Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:54pm.

by my reckoning the wall is at least 1/4 up at this point.

Proud member of the 53%!
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Then it is time we get out

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:29pm.

Then it is time we get out our Gingrich bulldozers and level the crap.

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It's not just the gas prices...

Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 2:58pm.

It's not just the gas prices, it's the prices of EVERYTHING, especially food. After hearing Obama tell us how he saved the economy, we, the People, tends to distrust such a claim while we watch the prices of just about everything keep increasing, especially the prices for necessary items, like food and energy.

Of course, after hearing the liberal press claiming, FOR YEARS, that he can "affect" these prices, can lower the costs of living for everyone, that he can SAVE this economy, now they're telling us that, Oh, Sorry, contrary to what Obama told us, he doesn't actually have ANY control over prices, over the economy. That the trillion dollar deficits he's been running, deficits he told us were necessary to lower the costs of food, gas, and "durable" good, especially cars (Cash For Clunkers, anyone?) and housing (Any loan, any time, ability to repay not applicable) has all been for nothing! And they wonder WHY people no longer trust Obama?

You know, that's a great reelection strategy that Obama has adopted. First tell everyone, for YEARS, that you can lower the costs for everything, for everyone, and that, in category after category, that you've actually achieved this, then, just a few months before your election, tell everyone that, no, sorry, I don't have any control over things like that! Yea, that's bound to work you want your opponent to be elected!

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