Poll: Support for Obama Crosses Party Lines When Voters Know Candidates' Abortion Positions

US News & World Report: NARAL Poll Shows Abortion Issue Could Push Independents and Pro-Choice Republicans to Obama, by Liz Halloran:

The poll found if voters know the candidates' stances, they choose Obama over McCain

The nation's largest abortion-rights group today released a poll of likely women voters in 12 battleground states that suggests presumed GOP presidential nominee John McCain could lose the support of significant numbers of independent and pro-choice Republican women—if they are educated about the Arizona senator's antiabortion voting record.

And that, the pollsters predicted, could help expected Democratic nominee Barack Obama win that "critical bloc" of swing voters come November.