Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for majority
Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for majority
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Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for majority
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Republicans: Makes wildy controversial and unpopular opinion
Also republican: Surprised when they might start losing popular votes
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Who could have foreseen that when your entire political platform is to make people’s lives worse you would be unpopular?!
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Still popular with Republicans, though, as long as it's hurting the right people.
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This is the comment I came here to make. Maybe they should have been campaigning against the choices their OWN party made. I’ve honestly been hopeful the republicans would become so extreme they’d lose their base. It should have a happened long ago in my opinion.
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Yup. They handed us a gigantic two-handed war cudgel, and we are most definitely going to beat the everliving shit out of them with it each and every single election cycle.
For as long as we've got it.
Don't arm your opponents.
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Sun Tzu: Don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.
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tbf, I'd just as soon they didn't arm us. Then we wouldn't really need to fight in the first place. This all starts in the first place when people start losing access to things. Reasonable health care, affordable education, right to vote, right to choose, right to have a not-fucked planet, these are not extreme demands.
Always felt this vid sums up American politics better than anything: https://youtu.be/THUFzmmKMPs
Then you just imagine the huge generation of boomers in the middle trying to make heads and tails of rapidly changing times. But lots of places have demographic challenges, we're not alone in that.
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Abortion rights issue should be a slam dunk in favor of Democrats but as we have seen repeatedly that folks will continue to vote against their own interests.
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“It’s true that abortion was the chief inhibiting factor for preventing Republicans from gaining an even bigger majority in the House, and of the Senate seats where we came up short last cycle the only way we can win this cycle is if we don’t let an issue like that pull voters away from our party,” said one Republican strategist who requested anonymity to discuss party strategy.
Or you could take a cue for voters and adopt policies that they will actually vote for...
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Alternate Title: Senate Republicans fear they haven't suppressed enough votes to maintain minority rule.