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I can only hope this new Texas law backfires on the GOP nationally, as abortion was only a massive issue to rally up the base even though they knew they could never get it overturned - it’s a much better issue to run on being pro life when nothing can be done (just complaining) than when they actually get their way
Now that it’s effectively overturned in Texas, and other states plan to follow suit, I can only hope the backlash is swift
No doubt now (if there ever was any doubt) that the 2022 midterms will have record turnout
Now that it’s effectively overturned in Texas, and other states plan to follow suit, I can only hope the backlash is swift
No doubt now (if there ever was any doubt) that the 2022 midterms will have record turnout
summerisle
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There's always an option.
When your 6yr old is murdered in school by a psychopath who used a Remington gun, it's obviously very important to determine if your 6yr old was ever absent from school or acted up in class...FFS
Possibly seeing cracks already. Prior to the SCOTUS refusing to stay the new abortion law in Texas, the Texas Politics Project did some polling 8/20-30. For only the second time in his seven-year tenure, Gov. Greg Abbott has net negative polling and the gap this time is far larger (11pts v 2pts back in April - first polling after the snowpocalypse shut down the energy grid) with a majority disapproving. In fact, it is the equal of Biden's net negative polling in Texas. Perhaps even more telling is that for the first time in 12 years of asking this question in polls, a majority of Texans responded that the state is on the wrong track.
The Texas GQP is in uncharted waters with these negative polls and there's radio silence about the abortion bill from them. Meanwhile, the ACLU and reproductive rights groups in Texas are being flooded with calls and donations.
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TBF I do disagree with the move to seal those records - if anything they should be published far and wide, get the names of those kids back into people's consciousnesses rather than just reducing what happened there to "Sandy Hook". Make the vermin who represent the insurance firms try to argue that this or that five year old did something wrong.
Hey listen, I'm as liberal as the next guy, but I'm pretty sure I'd want ballistic fannys well regulated!
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Opinion: The GOP's Texas-sized mistake on abortion
Charlie Dent writes that the Texas GOP is making a critical mistake in passing restrictive abortion measures -- and may face a fallout like the one after the Terri Schiavo case.
www.cnn.com
This seemed like a pretty sharp take to me, from a long-time insider in these wars. I think the answer to his question is that if the GOP doesn't at least occasionally throw red meat to the single-issue abortion voters, they'll start getting soft turnout from them.
This is why the Republicans periodically do really stupid things on this issue. Dent is correct that the timing is terrible for the GOP. Changing the subject was foolish, but the Texas state legislature is both part-time and biennial. It could not select the timing as a consequence.
It's a stupid law that is a strawman designed to be knocked down while getting a lot of ink and airtime, so that the anti-abortion voters show up next November. The GOP is playing politics with women's bodies, and does not care so long as it benefits them at the ballot box.
Does this make it clear?
Damn straight! Either that or I have a WHOLE BUNCH of people I need to start suing......
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