By Big Margin, New Voters Are Pro-Life.

"America's newest voters to enter the political process are predominately pro-life. Over half (54%) of first-time voters call themselves pro-life, while only 43 percent say they are pro-choice. Moreover, those new pro-life voters are more likely than the pro-choicers to care enough about abortion to base their vote on it."

From an article in the November 19 New York Post, based on Pace University's Pace Poll

Jonathan Trichter is the director and Christopher Paige is the assistant director of the Pace Poll, and they are co-authors of the New York Post op-ed. The results are all the more significant since the Pace Poll worked in conjunction with the notoriously pro-abortion group "Rock the Vote."

The findings cited above came from the third of three surveys conducted by phone November 4-11. (The Pace Poll brags that it was "the only poll to predict correctly that new voters would split their loyalties almost evenly between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry.")

According to the tabulation, 66% said abortion affected their decision. "[W]e found considerable support for the conventional wisdom that pro-life, rather than pro-choice, voters are the most likely to vote on the abortion issue; 77% of Republicans compared to just 56% of Democrats say abortion mattered to their vote; 75% of Bush voters, but just 60% of Kerry voters say the issue affected their decision."

The analysis also notes that more new voters self-identify as evangelicals (39%) than the national average (23%), and they ...