The fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision continued last week in Ohio where voters defeated a plan that would have made it more difficult to change the state constitution, with an amendment aimed at securing abortion rights on the ballot this fall. For years abortion has been thought […] Read more »
How abortion changes election maps
A Wisconsin election set the stage last week for Democrats to act on a range of issues in the state, from gerrymandering to election access — but the biggest driving force behind the result was abortion. Abortion has been illegal in Wisconsin since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. […] Read more »
Neighbors Ohio and Michigan are moving further apart in politics – differences in ballot access may explain why
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Detroit during the 2022 midterm elections. Matthew Hatcher/LightRocket via Getty Images David Jackson, Bowling Green State University and Dominic D. Wells, Bowling Green State University It may seem that the midterm elections are firmly behind us. Pollsters are already measuring likely […] Read more »
A Strategy for Factory Towns
… This report is part of a continuing effort by American Family Voices to do on-the-ground research and data analysis to understand the thinking and motivation of working-class voters, and to recommend strategies that can begin to rebuild the Democratic Party’s and progressive movement’s historic connection to America’s working class. […] Read more »
‘THE central issue’: How the fall of Roe v. Wade shook the 2022 election
… On Election Day, voters in critical states like Michigan and Pennsylvania ranked abortion — not inflation or crime — as the most important issue in the midterms, according to exit polls. The red wave never arrived. Instead, Democrats gained a seat in the Senate and Republicans, badly underperforming expectations, […] Read more »
Gretchen Whitmer Rejected False Choices. All Democrats Should.
… For Democrats, much of the debate about running in and winning big northern industrial states is that we have to choose a style of campaign. Either we talk to blue-collar voters about issues like economics and manufacturing, or we talk to suburban women about abortion. Either we use progressive […] Read more »