Unlike Barack Obama, who says that's "above his pay grade," most Americans have a pretty good idea when life begins and that's when John McCain said it does: conception.
Zogby International conducted the poll for WorldNetDaily and it questioned 1,099 likely voters from August 22 to 24.
The survey found 59 percent believe human life begins at conception, another 16.8 percent say it happens when an unborn child can survive outside her mother's womb with medical assistance, and just 17.2 percent say human life doesn't begin until birth.
Worse for Obama, most of those polled said they would oppose a candidate who didn't know when a baby is a baby.
The Zogby poll asked a follow-up question about whether voters would support or oppose a presidential candidate who doesn't know when human life begins. Voters, by a 55.3-to-27.7 percent margin, said they would oppose such a candidate.
Supporting abortion till (or even after) birth is a tough position to sell to all but the hardliners.
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