It’s still unclear what GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s position is on abortion. In an interview with Fox Business, Cain said that it “is not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision (about abortion).” And after saying he was against abortion under any circumstances, he told CNN’s Piers Morgan: “It ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician. Not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide.” That sounds like a pro-choice stance. But Cain then released a statement saying that he misunderstood the questions. “As to my political-policy view on abortion, I am 100 percent pro-life,” he said. “End of story.” Is it?
GOP members of Congress aren’t just out of step with most Americans on key provisions of President Obama’s job bill; most Republican voters don’t agree with them either, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll. Among self-identified Republicans surveyed, 58 percent support cutting the payroll tax for all American workers, 63 percent support providing federal money to state governments to hire teachers and first responders, 54 percent want increased federal spending to build roads and schools, and 56 percent support increasing the taxes paid by people who make more than $1 million a year. The only policies GOP voters didn’t support were increasing federal aid to unemployed workers, which only 36 percent supported, and increasing taxes of people who make more than $250,000 a year, which only 37 percent supported. Overall, 60 percent of Americans want more aid to the unemployed, and 63 percent think taxes should increase on those making more than $250,000.
It’s still unclear what GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s position is on abortion. In an interview with Fox Business, Cain said that it “is not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision (about abortion).” And after saying he was against abortion under any circumstances, he told CNN’s Piers Morgan: “It ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician. Not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide.” That sounds like a pro-choice stance. But Cain then released a statement saying that he misunderstood the questions. “As to my political-policy view on abortion, I am 100 percent pro-life,” he said. “End of story.” Is it?
