CBS Poll

Boy, there was a time when Republicans knew how to pick a wedge issue during an election year and mercilessly pummel Democrats with it but they must be losing their touch.

A new CBS poll finds that a huge majority of the American people support birth control and believe religious employers should be required to cover it. Even self-professed Catholics support Obama’s new rule on contraception by a margin of 61/32. Oops.

If the kings of controversy were hoping birth control and “religious liberty” were going to be their ticket to electoral success in the fall they’ve badly miscalculated. Maybe they should try proposing actual solutions to our nation’s problems instead of preying on people’s fears and anxieties to get votes.