Posted on 08/08/2023 5:57:36 PM PDT by Coronal
Issue 1 was projected to fail on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, dealing a blow to Ohio Republicans who wanted to hamstring a November ballot question on abortion rights.
Decision Desk HQ, an election results reporting agency providing results and race calls for the USA TODAY Network Ohio, called the race around 8:09 p.m. With about 28% of the vote counted, no vote was leading 68% to 32%.
Tuesday’s election was the culmination of a months-long fight that began last year, when Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, first introduced a plan to tighten the rules for constitutional amendments. The debate played out in the halls of the Ohio Statehouse, on the campaign trail and even in the courtroom as opponents tried to stop GOP lawmakers in their tracks.
Proponents of the measure said they want to keep controversial policies out of the constitution and reserve it for the state's fundamental rights and values. Critics argued the ballot measure was a power grab that would hamstring the rights of citizens to place an issue on the ballot.
Ohioans appeared to buy the message opponents were selling.
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I think that conventional wisdom about Democrats gets turned on its head when you have mail-in ballots and “single-issue” voting on things like abortion and marijuana legalization.
Define some measure. My some measure is, rape incest or the life 5he mother.
Must sacrifice to Moloch. A nation in decline…
This certainly should: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/07/ohios-frank-larose-declared-himself-nevertrump-2016-called-trump-tweet-racist-2019-continued-opposition-through-2020/
“I suspect many Republican voters are lazy as hell and can’t be bothered to get out and vote in off-year elections, for minor offices, or for referendum votes like this.”
I further suspect this will energize Millennials and Gen-Z for 2024. They’ve seen what happens in high turnout elections.
If the first three years of Social Security were based on your child’s/children’s FICA payments, abortion clinics would add a new clause to their patient consent form like:
Killing off your baby unnecessarily will likely cost you about $30,000 in future SS payouts.
In forty years, the US might be a heavily Hispanic, Catholic-majority country.
They are. Poll after poll has shown that a majority of Americans support legalized abortion in the first trimester.
For too long, conservatives dismissed these polls as fake news, propaganda, and now they're seeing, in the only poll that matters, --the poll taken in the voting booth, that these polls were indeed correct.
The way the care about Abortion is the way I care about Gun rights.
“Why are women so eager to maintain the right to destroy their unborn children? Have men (in general) really become so lousy that they don’t see an alternative?”
A lot of women forget to take their daily pill. Smart reminder pill boxs might help the forgetful.
What reaction were you expecting from a volunteer poll worker?
Considering the corruption in the voting system, the reaction was exactly what I expected.
What happened to the Hebrews when they turned on God and started sacrificing their children to Baal?
Can’t trust the elections anymore. But if the population turns over to a majority of evil and communism then this country is obviously finished. No earthly way to come back from that.
There is no referendum that can take away Gun rights. Those are GOD given,they are not subject to referendum or “ democracy” . There is NO compromise on this.
Before Social Security the bundle of joy was often eventually mom’s old age pension provider.
girl power
This was a mistake by the Ohio GOP. They got an awful lot of people who never vote fired up.
They think entirely differently from you.
In any war of ideas, it is important to understand that ones' adversary probably doesn't think the same way you do, especially when the adversary is in the majority.
Westerners are going to learn this the hard way wherever Muslims become the majority.
I am just using that as an example as it is an obvious one.
They’ve won practically everything since 2018. Ok we won 4 seats in 2022. Dreadful.
Best to leave Abortion up to the voters. If we lose elections there will be abortion clinics on every corner. It’s hard to take away rights once they have been granted.
In a political organization I belong to, when there is a controversial state or local issue, we poll our our membership because it is the club’s position and in its by-laws to not officially endorse in primaries or take a position in local issues. However we publish the polls of our membership. This may sound spineless but this has served the organization well for 50 years.
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