The Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Does Not Change the Midterms

Red State ^ | Jun 25, 2022 | Jeff Charles

[T Ruth]

I predicted previously that the overturning of Roe v. Wade would not affect the outcome of the upcoming midterm Congressional elections. I still stand by that prediction, now that the Supreme Court has handed down its ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson. Nevertheless, folks on both sides of the aisle appear to believe that this development could increase Democrats’ chances of avoiding a total shellacking in November.

Now that Republicans have succeeded in overturning Roe, some have surmised that this could be a pyrrhic victory that comes back to haunt them later. Republican strategists told Politico that they are concerned that the court’s ruling might adversely impact the outcome of the upcoming congressional elections.

“This is not a conversation we want to have,” said John Thomas, one of the strategists. “We want to have a conversation about the economy. We want to have a conversation about Joe Biden, about pretty much anything else besides Roe … This is a losing issue for Republicans.”

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“You go to any diner in America, and nobody’s talking about this,” said Dave Carney, a national Republican strategist. “That’s not what’s driving the conversation. Real people, working people, people who vote, are talking about the incompetence of the president, and then they go down the list of six or seven things.”

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Democrats, for their part, escalated their rhetoric after the decision was handed down on Friday. When the court’s draft opinion was leaked in May, they began laying the groundwork for the campaign they would launch once the ruling was issued. Now, they are engaging in a full-court press to excoriate the overturning of Roe and using alarmist talking points to rile up their voting base.

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[thefactor]

Rational people can disagree about whether an embryo that's a few days old is "life" or not. In my opinion, if five embryos are implanted, but three are deemed to be not viable through testing, removing them is not murder.

The assertion that this issue will have zero consequences in November is whistling past the graveyard.

[Theophilus]

We'll pray God gives you the children you rightly desire!

Psalm 37:4
Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart

[thefactor]

Thank you!

[DoughtyOne]

I doubt any of them are still facing primaries, or they
would have voted differently.

We may be forced to get them back in and then primary them
in two years.

It won’t happen over night, but it will happen.

We’re sick of it. Pence is just about to find out how sick
of it we are. Gone are the Bush, McCain, Romney days.

The luke warm buckets of horse sweat don’t get a rubber
stamp any longer.

[central_va]

Looks like the GOP lost the young slutty chick vote.