COS Makes Hay of Dubious National Survey
Do most Americans really support a so-called Convention of States, or, more accurately, an Article V Constitutional Convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution? Mark Meckler, the president of Convention of States (COS), and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum want you to believe so based on the findings of a new poll. But a detailed analysis of the published data casts doubts on the poll’s results.
In a recent opinion article written for The Epoch Times, titled “The Only Path to End the Deep State,” Meckler and Santorum said,
We’ve tried elections. We’ve supported good candidates who promised to end corruption. But nothing has worked.
That explains why new polling from The Trafalgar Group finds that a majority of Americans (65.7 percent) would support using a Convention of States to propose constitutional amendments.
Understandably, COS has been touting the results of the Trafalgar Group’s poll. In a press release posted on its website, COS boasts that “Two-Thirds of American Voters Support a Convention of States to Propose Amendments Requiring Term Limits and Reining in Federal Spending and Overreach.” To conduct the poll, COS Action partnered with the Trafalgar Group. They surveyed likely general election voters to gauge support for such a convention.
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