[only1percent]

Has someone posted on this fact yet: the FMA will be a terrible blow against the Democratic Party.

The Dem's increasingly doctrinaire stand on abortion has driven out tons of people from the grass roots and has progressed to the point that Democrats of the most profoundly well-established credentials get opposed by large swaths of the party establishment if given an opportunity.

I have to think that this could be a breaking point of greater magnitude. Torn between the media people and the left-liberals, on the one hand, and the large majority of the vote outside of the urban and college town districts, there's going to be a HUGE problem. The money people are going to be split up as well. Hollywood and the silk stockings will demand support, the trial lawyers won't care ... the teachers union will have to break the tie.

Where the Democrats go right on this issue, the Greens will move in and split votes. Where they go left, the Republicans will pick up directly.

[aristeides]

Makes sense. Does raise the question in my no doubt overly conspiratorial mind of whether Kennedy's and O'Conner's votes are to be explained by a Machiavellian political calculation.