"In this moment, … it is clear that women have electoral and political power over more than abortion rights.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mmaniac90 Yep. That's why my mother and her four sisters, raised in the white evangelical South, all of them, did not buy the nonsense that came along when white evangelicals and right-wing Catholics created their alliance first to oppose civil rights laws and then legalization of abortion. They knew better and all knew stories of women being maimed or dying from backroom abortions. If they were alive today, I have no doubt at all they'd vote for Harris.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse It is mind-boggling. And it's infuriating,

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Tim Miller has an "emergency" talk with Ann Selzer about the shocking surprise she has offered the nation with her poll finding that Iowa appears to be tilting in the direction of Kamala Harris — due, Selzer explains, to women voters and the abortion issue.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
/5

Ann Selzer: How Could This Be?

Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy My cousin in IA just texted me about the poll, saying she didn't think Harris would pull it off but "it's fun to think about"

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It’s been obvious to me and pretty much everyone who has a uterus what is driving the shift to Harris. But Selzer helpfully clarifies the data: 'Age and gender are the two most dynamic factors that are explaining these numbers.'”

~ Michele Hornish

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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The Shock is Shocking: Pundits Don't Seem to Get This Election

Fundamental freedoms and election fundamentals

(michelehornish.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It never ceases to amaze me how amazed men are that women are voting for their literal freedom from a world where the government can force you to be an incubator - enduring months of daily torture and a lifetime of physical and psychological damage.

Yes we are single issue voters. The single issue is our life.

Stop being surprised that women are making this their issue.

Start being surprised that more men aren’t making it theirs."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
/7

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"[Ann Selzer's poll] shocked the political world. It also reminded us that the Supreme Court’s Dobb’s decision continues to have serious electoral consequences for the party that is determined to turn women into second-class citizens."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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~ Mary Trump

North Carolina—and Iowa?

I did not see this coming

(www.marytrump.org)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Iowa has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. Beyond that, the state has been losing OB-GYNs since before Roe v Wade was overturned. And, in the wake of the decision, it’s been losing medical providers of all specialties."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
/9

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy When people in government mostly if not all misogynistic men, feel they know more then Medical Doctors, the obvious result is what we see happening in Iowa.

[samhkennedy@aus.social]

@wdlindsy older woman have daughters, older woman who massively religious have been getting abortions for their kids for donkeys years to save face. On what planet did people think older woman weren’t going to have problems with abortion rights removal.

[mustseek@stranger.social]

@wdlindsy Men are not paying attention to #MAGAroid proposals to sterilize anyone who is not a misogynist #HateMongers #ControlFreaks

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO DETECTS, among many of my fellow commentators commentating away on this election, a kind of reluctance, almost a kind of embarrassment, to state the obvious: Abortion rights is the issue that could decide this presidential contest.

This is particularly clear from Ann Selzer’s Iowa poll…."

~ William Kristol

#KamalaHarris #Trump #women #abortion #Iowa #AnnSelzer
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It’s Abortion, Stupid

We are underappreciating the significance of the Dobbs decision.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@wdlindsy I remember having this conversation 2 years ago with a very conservative student. He was very bright and thorough but he'd been homeschooled and really couldn't grasp that abortion was a BFD.

[tlariv@mastodon.cloud]

@wdlindsy
Wait, did Bill Kristol suddenly develop awareness?
@timo21

[savvyhomestead@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

On one hand, you could vote for an old, orange, deranged, make-up wearing con-artist rapist and felon or a young, intelligent, compassionate adult.... and some people are having a hard time deciding?

[terypat@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

I am not at all surprised that the pundit class finally saw the elephant in the room the last weekend of a historic election.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Terypat Well-stated. Yes, count me unsurprised, too. I've come to see that the middle name of that surfeited, arrogant class is Shameless.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Savvyhomestead Touché.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tlariv @timo21 Kristol is far from a hero of mine. I excerpt material here from people whose worldview I don't share, people of whom I am highly critical. At the same time, I think that the threat we now face from rising fascism is so serious that it behooves us to set aside our differences if we are united in the common goal of pushing back that rising tide of fascism. And when people of his ilk say something sensible, I therefore share it, if it seems worth sharing.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@akamran I had a conversation about that very thing just a few days ago with a friend whose nieces and nephews are all being homeschooled or taught in church-based schools in our right-wing little red state. She thinks the education they are receiving is deplorable and fears for the future, when so many young folks are being "educated" in this way.