… Roe infuriated pro-life Americans and made pro-choice Americans complacent. Republican candidates could use the issue to rile up their base without risking an electoral backlash. But if Roe goes down, Americans who want to keep abortion legal will have to vote that way. And those Americans are a political […] Read more »
America’s Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker
The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion presents a major setback for reproductive freedom in America and offers a potential jolt to the upcoming midterm elections. But it also illuminates another, deeper phenomenon in American politics: the urgency and ambition of the Republican drive to lock […] Read more »
How Americans reacted when they learned the Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade
On Monday evening, news outlets reported that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision indicates that the Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision which established a constitutional right to abortion. The next morning, YouGov fielded a poll asking Americans their reactions to this […] Read more »
Will Biden’s 2022 midterms be worse than Obama’s in 2010?
Whether it’s reporters or politicians or D.C. insiders, the question I get asked more than any other is, “How many?” — how many seats will Republicans pick up this fall? Forecasting numbers based on the latest polls is never a good idea, but certainly the trend lines are heading in […] Read more »
The Supreme Court Appears Likely to Strike Down Roe v. Wade. Voters Are Most Likely to Say It Should Be Upheld
Voters are increasingly likely to say the Supreme Court should not overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico survey that comes as a leaked draft of the high court’s ruling to strike down the landmark 1973 decision reverberates across the country. The survey was conducted the day […] Read more »
Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe
A majority of Americans say the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion, a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week finds. With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the right to abortion, the survey finds that 54 percent of […] Read more »