'The importance of abortion rights as a motivator for voting has increased significantly since the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.' More from danschnur in our Perspectives section:
The biggest contest in this year’s midterm elections is not between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, or between either man and their growing number of detractors within their respective parties. It’s not a faceoff between Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy or between Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. Rather, the most important political battle this fall will be between inflation and abortion.
And so the battle was joined. For the past two months, the two parties have traded confident predictions that their preferred issues will drive voters’ decisions on Election Day. While it’s clear that reproductive rights have become a much more relevant issue to many Americans since the Court’s decision, it has seemed like the GOP”s focus on inflation would be the more potent political force of the two.
But that’s a deceptively simple solution to a much more complex political challenge. Unlike the Kansas vote, which was a straight up-or-down decision on the legality of abortion, candidate elections involve several moving parts and individual policy options, each of which the voters must weigh as they cast their ballots. Pro-life Republicans won’t be required to run their campaigns on the basis of their opposition to abortion.
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