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Buyer’s remorse could be creeping in for GOP on abortion

Dems have been playing Mr. Nice Guy for too long and it's cost them. The days of "reaching across the aisle", or trying to, are over until the Radical Right lets go of Turd.

I think they've done a very good job of messaging on the Roe v Wade issue and it's already shown to be helping their cause. The SCOTUS ruling went against the general support of Roe v Wade. Majority of citizens favored pro choice.

Hopefully it moderates some Republicans. Time will tell.
 
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Rs continue to lose ground in the Senate. 538 forecast now favors the Dems 65-35. Amazing given that just this summer Rs were the ones favored.
R's are either going to have to backtrack on abortion and piss off the christian conservatives or they will continue to lose ground. The results of the R's culture wars are now being seen and the majority of Americans are not into it...
 
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R's are either going to have to backtrack on abortion and piss off the christian conservatives or they will continue to lose ground. The results of the R's culture wars are now being seen and the majority of Americans are not into it...
This is the impossible tightrope I've been talking about since Roe was overturned. The safety net has been removed and a step in any direction invites danger.

Its a no-win dilema for the more extreme GOP candidates:

a) If you re-affirm your far right position against reproductive rights, you will lose support of a signiificant portion of moderate Republican and Independent voters.

b) If you backtrack on your abortion position, you will invoke the wrath of the religious zaealots, a substantial segment of the party, who are also dedicated single-issue voters.
 
This is the impossible tightrope I've been talking about since Roe was overturned. The safety net has been removed and a step in any direction invites danger.

Its a no-win dilema for the more extreme GOP candidates:

a) If you re-affirm your far right position against reproductive rights, you will lose support of a signiificant portion of moderate Republican and Independent voters.

b) If you backtrack on your abortion position, you will invoke the wrath of the religious zaealots, a substantial segment of the party, who are also dedicated single-isse voters.

Need to hit the meme-generator again...

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The backtracking by some Republican candidates up for election in November is remarkably dizzying and transparently phony.

Blake Masters is a "no-exception-protection-from-conception" Republican who recently won the GOP nomination for Senate in Arizona. Within the past few days he scrubbed his campaign website of his extreme abortion views and is now trying to portray himself as a "common sense" moderate.


Other Republican candidates are giving the old jackie Gleason "hommina hommina" response when asked about their long standing extreme positions.

Did they think pro-choice voters, a solid majority, wouldn't notice?

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And, they are creating a problem for themselves while they attempt to scrub their record on women's health. They risk alienating the pro life zealots they have pandered to for decades. You cannot backtrack with these people. It's 100 percent or nothing. The people who are driving the most extreme measures will be less excited this election cycle if the GOP candidate is out in public talking about how abortions up to 15 weeks, or with exceptions past then are fine.
 
Need to hit the meme-generator again...

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I seems likely that Blake Masters has chosen the backtrack option based on the recommendation of political advisors smarter than him who have taken notice of the backlash generated by the Dobbs decision. GOP political analysts have undoubtedly focus grouped this issue and they know how to read election results.

It depends upon the state and district but I expect that GOP candidates in swing districts and state-wide contests will atempt an artful backtrack. Softening their stance will not sit well with the evangelical bible thumpers.
 
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And, they are creating a problem for themselves while they attempt to scrub their record on women's health. They risk alienating the pro life zealots they have pandered to for decades. You cannot backtrack with these people. It's 100 percent or nothing. The people who are driving the most extreme measures will be less excited this election cycle if the GOP candidate is out in public talking about how abortions up to 15 weeks, or with exceptions past then are fine.

Imo I think it’s a long term consequence of badly gerrymandered state and house districts. Parties have gotten more used to pandering to the base to get nominated and making it hard to pivot to the middle without pissing off the people that got you nominated.
 
And, they are creating a problem for themselves while they attempt to scrub their record on women's health. They risk alienating the pro life zealots they have pandered to for decades. You cannot backtrack with these people.
Potential for high level of flop sweat among Republican candidates this Fall.
 

In the end, Collins voted for a version that includes the extremely limited exception of allowing abortions for pregnancies that result from rape and incest if the pregnancy is less than 12 weeks along and if the doctor reports the rape to law enforcement. The bill also allows abortions to save a pregnant person’s life but criminalizes doctors if they perform abortions for any other reason. The final bill passed 67 to 38.
 
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