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Does the midterm election simply come down to one thing (abortion)?

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Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
 
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Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en mass and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
No.

It's going to come down to one thing: The economy.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en mass and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
Exactly.

 
No, of course not.

Abortion moves up the agenda, and that matters because some people will vote on just the one issue (and split 100/0 by party).

But inflation will still be top of the agenda for most people. It shouldn't be difficult to break the false narrative that deficit spending causes inflation, but sadly I don't expect Democrats to even try. They will just distract from it, with low unemployment and (maybe) a return to economic growth. Not that it's completely dishonest: low unemployment is an opportunity for workers to move to a better paying job, but honestly most people stay with the same employer because they're afraid of being out of work. Unemployment isn't SO low that they can be sure of getting the same or better wages, within a week or two.

Motor fuel prices, well who can say. Democrats can probably counter the argument that domestic drilling will lower prices (it's a dumb argument) but they won't propose price fixing or nationalization. So they have the dreary task of explaining that motor fuel will never be cheap again, and that's a hard sell against what people WANT to believe. Perhaps an "October surprise" of aviation fuel taxes, would persuade some voters that Democrats are really on the side of motorists after all.

Immigration. Not much room to move on this. The Biden administration has clung to the UN standard on asylum seekers. It's too late to change that. But advertising could highlight individuals who came to the US as asylum seekers, and were successful. Low rate of crime among those who fear not just prison but deportation. If Congress wasn't so shaky on DACA, legislating it could be a positive in the last weeks.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en mass and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?


well everybody is different but yes many men and women will vote on the issue of woman's rights because its such a huge thing
others of course will not

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there's a reason the vast majority of first world countries that have governments based on rights and freedoms have laws that lean prochoice
and that many countries that have laws that lean prolife do not have governments based on rights and freedoms, they are dictatorships, communists, theocracies etc
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
I think ultimately it's going to come down to economy, abortion rights, and indictments on Biden's and/or Trump's time in the Presidency. How they will be weighted is really tough to say. Will probably depend on voter turnout/demographics this year.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
If only it were that simple.
 
I think ultimately it's going to come down to economy, abortion rights, and indictments on Biden's and/or Trump's time in the Presidency. How they will be weighted is really tough to say. Will probably depend on voter turnout/demographics this year.
Explain what indictments you expect to come down on Biden's presidency. And by the way, no one will be indicted before the mid-term election per DOJ policy.

Now after the election, that's a whole different story. I have a feeling it won't go so well for the Trump Mafia Organization.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
I’d say no. I think since the 50 years since the first ruling on ROE back in the 1970’s, those who are avid pro-choice and avid-pro-life have all become Republicans and Democrats. By avid, I mean those who let the issue of abortion be the top or number one issue in deciding who they’ll vote for. That abortion is basically baked into the equation.

If you look at the generic congressional ballot, on 25 June, the day after the overturning of ROE, the Republicans had a 2.6-point lead. On 25 July, a full month after ROE, the Republican lead was at 2.5 points.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html

Then in the beginning of August that lead dropped, then the democrats took the lead on 1 September followed by the Republicans regaining the lead on 26 September and has a slim lead today. If abortion was such a hot issue that will decide this upcoming midterm, I don’t think everyone would have just ho hummed the overturning of ROE for a month before they became agitated about it. That using the generic, that no cared about the overturning for a full month, then, wham, bang, thankyou ma’am, they decided they do care. I think the reason for the momentum swing from the Republicans to the Democrats was Trump becoming the headline news star beginning in August, not abortion. Independents don’t like Trump much. Having Trump on the news, in front of the cameras constantly reminded them how much they dislike Trump, thus moving to voting Democratic. In fact, on the first of August independents were stating they’d vote for Republican congressional candidates by a 45-35 margin. By mid-September, Independents were then stating they’d vote Democratic small 42-40 margin. It’s no coincidence that the Democrats had their largest lead of 1.3 points on 16 September. The Republican Party is still the smaller of the two major parties, thus they must win the independent vote or lose the election. Today independents are saying they’ll vote for the Republican congressional candidates by a small 43-41 margin.

When it comes to independents, their most important issue for the upcoming midterms is the economy, inflation, rising prices. 23% if independents rate inflation, rising prices as their most important issue with jobs and the economy second at 11%. Why these two aren’t combined, I don’t know. Abortion, 8% of independents say that is their deciding issue. Question 60


History has shown that on average 94% of Republicans and Democrats will vote for their party’s candidates regardless of who they are, what they stand for, their positions on the issues. Republicans and Democrats only vote the letter behind the name, everything else is irrelevant to them. Therefore I concentrate on independents, the non-affiliated, less to non-partisans, they’re free thinkers, free agents so to speak. Most important, they decide elections. Not neither major party’s base.
 
Abortion is just fodder for fake outrage. Inflation and the economy along with the quality of the candidates will decide who will win the election.
 
Abortion is just fodder for fake outrage. Inflation and the economy along with the quality of the candidates will decide who will win the election.
i guess it's easy for you, a man, to say that.
 
Here's an idea of some things in the election.

1. Cult/propaganda for Republicans, perhaps single biggest thing
2. Sane Americans against cult
3. Abortion backlash
4. Misc issues

In other words, the election is mainly driven by other things - how else would Hershel Walker be close in his race - but 5-10 points from abortion can swing a lot of races. That's huge.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
There's more important issues on the table to base their vote on.
 
Explain what indictments you expect to come down on Biden's presidency. And by the way, no one will be indicted before the mid-term election per DOJ policy.

Now after the election, that's a whole different story. I have a feeling it won't go so well for the Trump Mafia Organization.
Trump isn't a candidate during midterms
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
You sound like a Huffington Post headline writer.
 
For women...women's rights is a primary issue. Men aren't going to dictate that to us and btw...there are more women than men in the US
Nobody is dictating anything. Each state is free to decide what the standard is in their state. Are women incapable of voting for local offices?
 
I can't imagine there's a large subset of women who actually believe the crap they're being fed and are also willing to vote for the ones feeding them the crap to assure they'll do what they're told.
 
Is that going to be the one thing that drives this election? Do women (all ages) show up en masse and vote against anti- choice people? Do liberal men also show up and support them?

And do they (women) do so because they don't want old men controlling them?
Americans in general are not smart when it come to politics nor elections. People like drama, and people like "attack antics"... most of the people as well as the media, "spins drama" to increase viewership, so they can charge more to run commercials.

The small segment of the society who truly deals with and understanding "Policy" and invest energy into understanding policy or our "Internal Government Agencies".... they crunch the numbers, they do the research and they understanding the needs for and of regulations.

If we had knowledgeable Elected Politicians in Congress, they'd Go to these Agencies to get the details and facts, and they'd bring that back to the Public who elected them, and they would inform the public of those specifics and details.

INSTEAD, all we get is "partisan drama antics" that are designed to keep the people ignorant, and its easily to make ignorant people lose themselves within anguish and promote their anger as if its a policy position.

We are a long ways from being the type and level of society who can truly respect the "premise and principles" the Founders had when they created America's "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, AND CHOSE A REPUBLIC FORM OF GOVERNING STRUCTURE"

Sadly, most people don't even understand the basis and facts of what is a "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, AND CHOSE A REPUBLIC FORM OF GOVERNING STRUCTURE".

Sites like this and others, is littered with a mass of "ignorance"... and much of that ignorance is attributed to a "shallow education system, that did not give the true focus and depth to "Civics Education" to truly educate people on the Civics of a "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, AND CHOSE A REPUBLIC FORM OF GOVERNING STRUCTURE".

WHY? Because this country was infected with Racism, because RACISM is the easiest way to "divide the people"... and a divided people makes for a weak citizen population, and thus the "wealthy retains control", they dominate over the nation and buy away the voice of the people by buying the politicians the people elect.

Racism is with many elements, but one component is, to promote "Inequity" among people. This give power to the wealthy to manipulate the masses.

America's best hope lies within its ability to IMPROVE its system of Education and Expand it to face the real truths of history and the present time and understand how history is at the root of the problems and challenges that keep the "inequity" in place, and the lack of good truth and honest history and civics continue to make the general public weaker and weaker.

Then you get imbeciles like Trump and Republican who come along and feed the ignorance with every manner and mode of "promoting anguish and feeding anger, until the people become "mind blind" and controlled like a cult.
 
Let me shed some light on this discussion, because I can already see the partisan slants being presented:

For the Left - yes.
For the Right - no.
For the Middle - we will see

For a Canadian - let the partisan slagging begin
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Abortion is just fodder for fake outrage. Inflation and the economy along with the quality of the candidates will decide who will win the election.
i guess it's easy for you, a man, to say that.
There's more important issues on the table to base their vote on.
Being stripped of a major right would appear to be very important to women. But you're a guy, right?
 
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