Kansas votes to keep abortion legal
The final result was a landslide - 59% in favor of keeping the state's constitutional protection of abortion rights, and only 41% voting to remove them. This wasn't in a liberal state, either - Kansas is a conservative state that Donald Trump also won by a 20 point landslide. 80% of Kansans identify as Christians. And based on the votes for governor, half of the votes to preserve abortion rights came from Republicans.
The conventional wisdom, that the Dobbs decision will demoralize pro-choice voters, that abortion isn't an important enough issue to motivate apathetic voters to come out for a midterm primary, that people are more concerned about high gas prices - all of this turned out to be wrong. Democrats need to make the midterms about abortion and nothing but abortion. It would be ironic if Samuel Alito is the reason Democrats hold onto the House and gain seats in the Senate.
For 50 years, anti-abortion forces let the nutjobs among them set the agenda, because with Roe in place, it didn't matter. Now the nutjobs are in charge of the pro-life movement and reasonable people are sickened by what they're seeing. This is just the beginning.
The conventional wisdom, that the Dobbs decision will demoralize pro-choice voters, that abortion isn't an important enough issue to motivate apathetic voters to come out for a midterm primary, that people are more concerned about high gas prices - all of this turned out to be wrong. Democrats need to make the midterms about abortion and nothing but abortion. It would be ironic if Samuel Alito is the reason Democrats hold onto the House and gain seats in the Senate.
For 50 years, anti-abortion forces let the nutjobs among them set the agenda, because with Roe in place, it didn't matter. Now the nutjobs are in charge of the pro-life movement and reasonable people are sickened by what they're seeing. This is just the beginning.
