The Empty Cradle Will Rock. How abortion is costing the Democrats voters--literally.

Wall St. Journal ^ | June 28, 2004 | LARRY L. EASTLAND

[grundle]

Let's look at the 2000 election to see what those 6,033,097 Missing Voters meant to its outcome. What would these Missing Voters have meant to the election in Florida?

In the actual popular vote for president in the 2000 general election in Florida, George W. Bush was declared the winner by 537 votes. But if the 260,962 Missing Voters of Florida had been present to vote, Al Gore would have won by 45,366 votes.

[grundle]

This was posted a long time ago when it was new. But since the 2004 election is now long over, I figured it was worth looking at again. And it is very, very interesting.

[LauraleeBraswell]

But those babies could have been adopted by CONSERVATIVE families! So think of all the voters we lost!

[jocon307]

"And it is very, very interesting."

And absolutely true. Another generation with the way they've been going, and they might all be gone.

[OldFriend]

I remember Jocelyn Elders saying that we had to cure AIDS so there would be enough people to pay for our social security.

[buckeyesrule]

This is something I've been saying for a while. Abortion was legalized in 1973 and when those babies would have been of voting age around 1994 that was when the republicans won the house and senate. Democrats really are aborting their future voters.

[stopem]

What a headline, "the EMPTY cradle will rock". If that doesn't affect women planning abortions nothing will.

So sad! Poor babies who's mother didnt want them. The dims will continue to lose votes (thank goodness) because of their horrid atheist beliefs and NON-values thinking.

Thank goodness we as a party will stand up for these precious little lives!

[CPOSharky]

The instant gratification demoncrats can't wait 21 years for those babies to be old enough to vote.

It's easier to get out the dead vote and they don't have to feed them and change their nasty diapers.

[FormerACLUmember]

The Wall Street Journal's brilliant James Taranto calls this the "Roe Effect": Democrats are gradually shrinking in numbers since they murder their babies, killing off future generations of democrats.

My corollary to this is that Democrat Party replenishes its numbers by indoctrination and brainwashing of naive young people through the party's massive control of the media and entertainment industries.

[Noachian]

What we are seeing is natural law in action.

If a species refuses to reproduce it dies out, and is replaced by a species that does reproduce.

Like the dinosaurs liberals have had their shot as the top of the political food chain, and it's time for their self-imposed extinction.

[Ginifer]

There is a significant difference between Republicans with someone close to them who have had an abortion, and Democrats with someone close to them who have had an abortion:


• Republicans have fewer abortions than their proportion of the population, Democrats have more than their proportion of the population. Democrats account for 30% more abortions than Republicans (49% vs. 35%).

• The more ideologically Democratic the voters are (self-identified liberals), the more abortions they have. The more ideologically Republican the voters are (self-identified conservatives), the fewer abortions they have.

This isn't particularly surprising given the core constituencies of both political parties. But translating percentages into numbers for the purpose of evaluating their impact on politics makes the importance of these numbers real. It's one thing to quote percentages and statistics, it's quite another to look at actual human beings. For example:

• There are 19,748,000 Democrats who are not with us today. (49.37 percent of 40 million).

• There are 13,900,000 Republican who are not with us today. (34.75 percent of 40 million).

• By comparison, then, the Democrats have lost 5,848,000 more voters than the Republicans have.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005277

[socialismisinsidious]

pro-life ping

[jocon307]

"The Wall Street Journal's brilliant James Taranto..."

He is truly brilliant! He makes my day, every day. I'd be lost without the guy.

[DustyMoment]

But if the 260,962 Missing Voters of Florida had been present to vote, Al Gore would have won by 45,366 votes.

Sheer speculation; facts not in evidence!! Liberal policies are turning voters off across the country and making many long-term liberal base voters realistically eye the Republican Party.

To assert that all of those aborted babies would have grown up to be Dems and vote for Algore is as idiotic as to say that all Cubans love Fidel.

IMO, the WSJ missed it in the logic department on this one.

[DustyMoment]

My corollary to this is that Democrat Party replenishes its numbers by indoctrination and brainwashing of naive young people through the party's massive control of the media and entertainment industries.

You missed one - the SCHOOLS!!! That's where they do the MOST damage.

[FormerACLUmember]

My corollary to this is that Democrat Party replenishes its numbers by indoctrination and brainwashing of naive young people through the party's massive control of the media and entertainment industries. You missed one - the SCHOOLS!!! That's where they do the MOST damage.

Absolutely correct, and the most obvious place of indoctrination by the democrat party's evil teachers unions.

Did you know that one out of five delegates to the Democrat National Conventions are teachers union members!

[FormerACLUmember]

bump for WSJ Opinion Journal

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Linear projections are worthless. They assume no change to present circumstances. However, perhaps this thought will provoke some liberals to reconsider.

[Noachian]

Politics cannot ignore demographics.

The percentage of abortion's effect on the Democratic Party as whole is only one factor in its eventual decline.

Their party has a large faction of homosexuals who don't reproduce, and feminists who may produce below their replacement rate, or may not reproduce at all. These additional factors added to their high abortion rate means the Dems cannot produce more liberals than the Pubbies can produce conservatives.

The only way for the Dems to get new blood is to incorporate Hispanic immigrants into their party, but the Republican Party will also take its share of those.

The sticking point for Democrats as far as Hispanics are concerned is their family and religious orientation, their low abortion rate, their male macho mentality that looks down on feminists, and their anti-homosexuality.

This demographic group goes against the liberal orthodoxy that controls the Democratic Party, and if the Party wants these people it will have to seriously change its liberal viewpoint otherwise Hispanics will find a home in the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

One way or another the Democratic Party will have to change in order to survive, but that changed Party will not be the Democratic Party we know today.

[DustyMoment]

Did you know that one out of five delegates to the Democrat National Conventions are teachers union members!Sadly, I do. And, until the union is driven from the public school system OR homeschooling and/or the voucher system take off and provides REAL competition to the public schools for students (and federal education dollars), this is a situation that won't chnage anythime soon.

[FormerACLUmember]

bump!