Posted on 04/04/2024 9:11:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The popular opinion among many on both sides of the aisle about why the 2022 red wave turned into a red trickle is that the overturning of Roe vs. Wade ruined it for the Republicans. To the surprise of no one who's been reading me for a while, I don't agree with the popular opinion.
It was 40 years ago this spring that I first volunteered on a Republican campaign. I've seen a few elections. I cannot stress enough how one should never underestimate the ability of the GOP to blow an election simply because the party doesn't execute the fundamentals well.
Yes, I think that abortion played a role in 2022, but not as big of a one as most do. To the extent that it did, I blame Republican candidates' perennial inability to avoid rhetorical traps on the campaign trail. I do not, however, believe that there was a seismic shift in the female Republican electorate because of the Dobbs decision. No one has been able to convince me that, amid all of the inflation and woke takeover of schools tumult, suburban moms bailed on the GOP because they might want to get an abortion one day.
Paying no attention whatsoever to the opinions of Stephen Kruiser, the Democrats want to lead with abortion in any 2024 campaign tussles.
“I absolutely think reproductive freedom is still front and center,” said Rep. Hillary J. Scholten (D), who represents Grand Rapids and flipped her battleground seat in 2022 amid backlash to a statewide abortion ban eventually overridden by popular vote.
Democrats and Republicans are battling over the basic terrain that 2024 will be fought on and trying to push their strongest issue to the forefront.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Yup. Anger over Dobbs was dying down as people saw the abortion battle move to the several states. Graham reignited the national ban issue deliberately to sabotage potential gop gains.
Anybody that’s a single issue voter should not be allowed to vote especially these abortion morons and that should be hammered home daily by the right.
You want to vote for abortion rights but you don’t care if the country is going to hell with open borders and illegal immigrants, runaway inflation, endless crime and the loss of all other rights because you’re to lazy to take a pill or wear a condom.
Simple answer: what’s more important-killing babies or putting food on the table?
If you answer a - stop eating. If you answer b - stop killing babies.
We can fill the universe with what the GOP needs to learn 🙄
It doesn't take a seismic shift in the close races. A couple thousand people changing their minds or who weren't planning to vote is all it takes in many races.
Because they're dumb enough to keep going in front of hostile media, Republican candidates are going to be overwhelmed with abortion questions. The first thing they'll need to do is learn the power of dismissive rejection. Remind the questioner that it's "abortion," and not "reproductive freedom," or "women's health."
Then start talking about the border nightmare and don't stop talking about it.
If they are running for House or Senate the intelligent answer is that it's now decided at the state level, not Congress, as a result of Dobbs. They should vigorously defend Dobbs on the grounds that it should be decided there. Then pivot to the border. They could say something like "My opponent is making the race about abortion, even though Congress isn't deciding it - the states are, because he doesn't want to talk about the border".
If they start delving into the abortion issue at length, they are falling into a trap. A lot of them are stupid enough to fall into that trap.
Wisconsin’s Wausau mayoral race was an expensive race
where the Dems did not stint on resources but still lost.
<><>Democrats spent $40 per vote, 2x what the GOP spent,
<><>Dems still lost which is very telling in political circles.
<><>2020 Biden spent $15 per vote.
Also considered a winning topic.......the iceberg lying just below the surface
- abortion - seems not to have been the clincher Democrats are counting on.
(Zhang Fei provided details)
“It’s the economy, Stupid.”
If our side doesn’t start talking economics as well as the border then we are giving the Dems a huge break.
I would say 100% likelihood the election gets stolen.
Women are more concerned about the food prices than aabortion rights.
It’s men more than women who want girls to be able to get abortions.
“This avalanche of abortion talk is all media echo chamber stuff.”
You got it right.
Whoops.
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