CNN's Lemon Cherry Picks Poll to Cast GOP Pro-Lifers as Minority

MattH | October 21, 2011
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CNN anchor Don Lemon touted a recent CNN/ORC poll showing that 72 percent of Republicans believe abortion should be legal in "some" or all cases, and only 27 think it should not be legal.

However, Lemon didn't report the next question, which showed that of the 61 percent of Republicans who believe abortion should sometimes be legal, 53 of those 61 percent believed it should be legal "in a few" cases, and only 8 percent thought it should be legal in most cases.

So Lemon could have spun the poll the other way and said that 80 percent of Republicans believe abortion should not be legal or legal "in a few" cases.