… Efforts to figure out how political events effect vote choice are notoriously fraught. People’s responses on questions about whether they’re more or less likely to back candidates that, say, will fight to protect access to abortions are often downstream from how the respondents felt about the candidates in the first place. …
With that caveat in place, consider polling released by Gallup earlier this month. It found that, for the first time since 1996, more voters say they will only vote for a candidate who supports access to abortion than say they will only vote for one who opposes such access. What’s more, the percentage saying they’ll only vote for a pro-abortion candidate is higher than the percentage saying they’d only vote for an abortion opponent in any previous poll. CONTINUED
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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