One of the more interesting things about issue polling versus candidate polling is how a candidate can affect the policy position of respondents. Nationally, a rule to require pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions was around 80%. The support in Illinois in terms of Blagojevich issuing such an order, the overall approval of the move is 62%, 27% disapprove and 11% are unsure.
I’d still want to be on Blagojevich’s side on this issue because women and independents are in favor of the rule and the only key group opposed is Republicans who aren’t voting for him anyway. Even then, Republicans only oppose it with a plurality of 49%.