Voters threw their support behind abortion rights in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere as Democrats look to springboard off those wins by using the issue to drive turnout and shape next year’s races for the White House, Congress and other elections.
Ohio offered the clearest snapshot on Tuesday of the issue’s salience more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion. Voters in the increasingly Republican-leaning state resoundingly approved an amendment to the state constitution to protect access to abortion services.
Democrats also harnessed the issue in Virginia, riding it to retake control of the Legislature, and in Kentucky, giving Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a second term after he made abortion rights central to his campaign in the deeply Republican state.
Election night was an energizing moment for Democrats hoping abortion rights will pull voters to the polls in the 2024 presidential election. The campaigning and results for the amendment in Ohio, the only state with an abortion question on the ballot this year, is a precursor to similar ballot measures expected to be put to a vote in several states next year. That includes Arizona and Nevada, which play pivotal roles in the White House race.
Exactly what message would that be? There is no winning message when you oppose something that the majority of Americans support. A change in their platform is what they need.
What platform? When Trump ran for reelection, they literally didn’t bother to pass a platform.
They have a platform. Key and Peele mimicked it perfectly in this skit. https://youtu.be/B46km4V0CMY?si=UilSAVN9kEIDZ4hq
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Their old and cowardly base is dying off so they can’t fearmonger about the wrong people and hope to win elections anymore.
The party will die with them. The question is how many people will kill between then and now
To fuck off and die is what they need.
Adopting a platform, and using the positions they’ve been elected to, to govern for the benefit of all US citizens would do wonders for their popularity. But hey, that’s never gonna happen. The GOP has made themselves irrelevant, and continues to do so, actively, on a daily basis.