A new poll shows Americans believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should be personal choice. | Adobe Stock
A new poll shows Americans believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should be personal choice. | Adobe Stock
A recent poll revealed that a majority of Americans believe that taking a COVID-19 vaccine should be a personal choice and not be mandated.
A survey conducted July 12-13 by the Trafalgar Group in conjunction with the Convention of States Action (COSA), surveyed 1,077 likely general election voters and found overwhelming support for individual choice.
Overall, 71.4% said that it should be a personal choice, and only 21.8% supported a vaccine mandate.
Amongst party affiliation, the numbers did vary, however, both major party affiliations still supported personal choice with 58.7% of Democrats and 87.3% of Republican, along with 67.2% of independents or third party supporters agreeing.
COSA President Mark Meckler said the poll showed that Americans don't want to be dictated to about having to take the vaccine.
“These numbers reveal that hundreds of millions of social media messages, a constant stream of propaganda from the press, paid TV and radio ad campaigns coast-to-coast, daily hammering from Biden Administration officials, and cajoling from influencers and celebrities on every possible communication platform are having one profound effect on the public,” he said in a COSA release in response to the poll results. “It’s all backfiring.”
The COSA is a grassroots political organization with over 5 million supporters across the country whose major objective is on calling an Article V Convention of the States to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. COSA promotes amendments which would impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government.
Americans have never taken kindly to being told what to do, and they are not going to start now, Meckler added.
“After being told ‘my body, my choice’ for nearly five decades by the same crowd now hypocritically pushing mandates, is it any wonder the public isn’t on board?,” he said in the release.
The Trafalgar Group is a public polling and market research firm known for remarkably accurate poll results that have earned them the title "most accurate pollster" in several national elections.
South Carolina reports that 45.61% of residents have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, with 2.06 million people, or 40.01%, being fully vaccinated.
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