Here's the latest Gallup polling on abortion, conducted "mostly" after the recent leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade:
Gallup reports that pro-choice sentiment is the highest it's been since 1995. But be careful! It turns out that this is due almost solely to changes among Democrats:
Democrats are now more fired up about abortion than they have been for a long time, which is good. They should be. And this will help with turnout in the November midterms.
But we still have a lot of work to do persuading everyone else to become friendlier to abortion rights. The imminent end of Roe v. Wade hasn't had much impact on them yet.
I would like to again thank the Green Party for giving SCOTUS to the troglodytes. Half our population is about to no longer have the fundamental right to bodily autonomy thanks to your self-centeredness.
Wow! I didn’t realize the Greenies had nominated Hillary Clinton. Bad Greenies! Bad Greenies!
nope. democratic primary voters nominated her. the greens just decided to actively help trump beat her.
Naw. They voted for their candidate Jill Stein. Another Putin admirer, ironically.
The Green Party is the Quisling Party, working undermine the left from within taking blood money from the GQP to do so.
People who still identify as Republicans are now solidly a member of the party of Trump, and notwithstanding their real feelings on this matter, are against abortion because that is what everyone in their tribe is saying. You are not going to convince those people or the religious right to support pro-choice candidates, or move the needle on this issue in deep red states. These folks will have to experience the reality of criminalization of abortion for a few years to get any forward motion in many places.
Best that can happen now is for the issue to turn out Democrats and like minded independents (who ever they are) to help mitigate what will likely be a dismal midterm election. Holding the Senate would be a victory.
If ostensibly pro-choice voters voted like anti-choice voters, neither Bush II nor Trump would have been elected. Very few pro-choice voters make that the absolute issue that their opposites do.
Abortion rights is one of those issues where the good guys kept thinking that the Republicans were just bluffing. (Part of the reason, I suspect, that some black folks and some gays vote Republican. “Ohhhhh they’ll never really stop us from voting or take away our right to get married. They’re just saying that to get votes.” .. Suckers!!!!!!)
Very true. Back in the '80s, one of my coworkers was a pro-choice Republican and I asked her how she could vote for Reagan and she said: "Reagan talks tough on abortion but he never really does anything."
More recently, I've had similar encounters with senior citizens on Medicare and Social Security. When I point out that Republicans intend to phase out both programs, they simply dismiss it as trash talk: "Oh, that's just something Republicans say to sound tough on the deficit." I have no idea how to reach such people.
“ Gallup reports that pro-choice sentiment is the highest it's been since 1995. …. due almost solely to changes among Democrats.”
Translation: The Democrats (or Dem leaning) who helped Trump become the prez either by voting for Trump or not voting at all.
we'll never persuade everyone else to become friendlier to abortion rights. most current voters are full in one camp or the other. the GOP voting base is firmly in the anti-choice camp, and much as kevin seems to think dems just have to stop being so mean and just compromise to win them over, it's nonsense belied by everything the party and it's voters have done for decades, culminating in a coup. but when the effects of scotus' decision start to become reality across the country, i hope and believe it will cause a significant backlash with dems and independents, and increase turnout in 2024 enough to be determinative in some races, including for the presidency.
As the you know what gets real left of center voters start to think about the issue more in terms of bodily autonomy, especially as women begin to speak openly about why they have late term abortions. When push comes to shove there is no middle on the abortion question, pro-life folks are emboldened by their successes and are moving in for the kill.
It's all a means to an end - restoration of the white male patriarchy.
SCOTUS will not be ending abortion they will be criminalizing pregnancies. There wasn't an abortion pill in the 1960's. Every red state prosecutor will be forced to investigate every miscarriage. That is what making abortion illegal in 2022 will look like and the left better start messaging that.