As one GOP strategist put it, 'If Republicans think the issue of abortion isn’t on the minds of voters, tonight’s results should put them on notice.” — MaddowBlog
: They put a related issue on the ballot that would force Medicaid expansion supporters to get 60 percent of the vote to succeed, instead of a simple majority.
Making matters worse, Republicans tried to rig the process further by having voters decide the matter on a day in June when many GOP primary voters — and not many Democrats — were likely to be casting ballots. They failed spectacularly: Health care advocates turned out in droves two months ago and rejected the Republican measureAs it turns out, GOP policymakers in Kansas had a very similar strategy in mind about a different health care issue. Republicans in the Sunflower State pushed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would allow the GOP-led legislature to ban abortions.
This isn’t a situation in which proponents of reproductive rights somehow managed to eke out a narrow victory: With just about all of the votes counted, opponents of the amendment wonRemember, as far as many Republican leaders at the national level were concerned, the electoral impact of GOP-appointed Supreme Court justices overturning Roe v. Wade was. There would be no political earthquake, they predicted, because Americans’ focus was elsewhere.
A resounding victory for abortion rights advocates in a reliably red state offered fresh evidence that those assumptions are in need of a reevaluation.The Wall Street Journal. “There were no major contested Democratic primaries to drive turnout and the amendment still failed resoundingly. If Republicans think the issue of abortion isn’t on the minds of voters, tonight’s results should put them on notice.
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