WHEN TWO OF THREE AMERICANS WANT SOMETHING, THEY GET IT :

The people vs. cloning (Robert Novak, April 22, 2002, Chicago Sun-Times)

As the biotech lobby mobilizes in Washington this week to fight anti-human cloning legislation, a new national poll shows the industry's Senate Democratic allies on a course fraught with political danger. The survey of 800 adults by The Polling Co. shows 63 percent totally agree with President Bush's strong anti-cloning statement and only 29 percent disagree.

Behind the 63 percent approval of Bush's position is a potential reverse gender gap for Democrats, with 68 percent of women agreeing with the president compared with 53 percent of men. African Americans were especially strong against cloning (65 percent). A statement modeled after Daschle's position, to permit cloning for medical research, scored 26 percent agreement overall.

It's sort of an article of faith amongst the clonophiles that the medical promise of bioengineering is so great that only us whacko cultural conservatives could possibly oppose it. This poll should sober them up a little, but it shouldn't be too surprising to anyone. Women and blacks know who's going to get cloned when it starts happening, and it's not them, it's wealthy white males. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 22, 2002 4:00 PM