"Poll: GOP Voters OK Stem Cell Research"

WASHINGTON (AP) - Polling, advertising and grass-roots organizing, the pillars of a strong election campaign, now spill over routinely to congressional battles - embryonic stem cell research among them.

The embryonic stem cell issue flared during the 2004 presidential campaign and may soon come before the House. Republicans who dissent from President Bush's policy are circulating a poll designed to show they have the party's voters on their side even if many fellow GOP lawmakers are not.

The survey, taken among 800 Republican voters nationwide, showed 90 percent job approval for President Bush and 88 percent favorable support for Republicans in the House. Both levels far exceed recent results of surveys taken of voters of all political persuasions.

At the same time, 57 percent of those surveyed in the Republican-only poll said they favored embryonic stem cell research, with 40 percent opposed. On a follow-up question, 54 percent said it was more of a research issue, while 40 percent said it was more of an abortion issue.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050510/D8A05NIG1.html

Stem-cell research is the right thing to do, period.

What's sickening is finding out how many Republicans (and sadly, Dems, too) in the House and Senate change their views on the issue because of the polls.