A good many women will vote for abortion as a single issue ….
But the Economy is ALWAYS something that voters have on their minds…
While the mwedia cannot handle more than one thing at a time to present by talking heads?
Today on all the most cable news channel?
The reporrts of possiblke gas prices going up IS where they are going….
Right now?
Democrats do poll as HOLDING the US Senate and maybe gaining a seat or two…
Republicans do poll as GAINING a US House majority…
We have a few weeks to navigate…
And polls for that time…
Hang on…
“I think that silent group of people is going to have an effect on this election,” said Klinefelt, who is running in one of Michigan’s most hotly contested state legislative races.
Democrats are counting on those “silent” women voters to join them in Michigan and other battleground states across the country, where abortion has scrambled the calculus on how they may vote this fall. The campaigns in Michigan show Democrats are not just leaning on abortion policy to juice turnout amongst the party’s base, especially the large portion of it composed of college-educated women. Abortion is also a key part of the effort to persuade blue-collar women to switch sides, particularly in states where their Republican counterparts advocate a “no exceptions” approach to abortion access.
“What we’re seeing is that women are outraged that rights that we thought were locked in … are now very much at risk of being gone,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in an interview with POLITICO after rallying voters in Trenton, Mich. “The fact that so many people appear to be getting engaged on this issue, I think, is a good sign.”
Back at the doors, Klinefelt met a 44-year-old Eastpointe woman who declined to share her name but exemplified Klinefelt’s search for swing voters motivated by abortion. “I’ve always been pro-life,” the woman said. But in “realizing how many [abortions] are medically necessary, but then there’s no exceptions? That’s big for me.”
The woman said she plans to vote for Whitmer this fall because “she’s much better than the alternative,” and abortion, “truthfully,” weighed heavily on that decision.
Even some Republicans in the state privately acknowledge that they need “to do some soul-searching” to “get in line with the people” on abortion policy, said one Michigan Republican consultant, who was granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly…
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Nationally, the picture is more complicated for Democrats looking to draw in white, non-college-educated women, especially in places where the debate around abortion is more nuanced, several GOP pollsters said. They also point to public and private polling that consistently finds economic concerns outweighing abortion for these voters…
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Democrats acknowledged the framing matters as they run on abortion, including trying to put the issue in economic terms.
It’s “the most important economic decision a woman makes in her lifetime,” Whitmer said, noting that “sometimes” Democrats “don’t engage in [that messaging frame] as much as we probably should.”
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat who represents a slice of neighboring Oakland County, reinforced Whitmer’s point.
“Here’s what pollsters are missing — and it’s not a surprise that a lot of them are men: For women, this is the most expensive decision they’ll make in their lifetime. If you’re a woman, you’re buying groceries, that’s another mouth to feed, it’s more gas to pay for another trip to a school,” McMorrow said. “If you’re talking to women, yes, inflation is the top concern, but they’re also thinking about that in the context of access to an abortion.”…