.MaddowBlog: Republicans keep insisting that abortion rights will be irrelevant on Election Day. Polls suggest otherwise.
will be largely irrelevant. It’s also possible that this rhetoric represents a profound example of wishful thinking.
Either way, telling voters reproductive rights won’t matter in the elections is one thing; voters’ actual attitudes are another. Consider theWhen asked to choose the single most important issue from the six policy areas included in the poll, economic policy and abortion are the top concerns, followed by health care and immigration . Fewer than 1 in 10 select either gun control or tax policy as their most important issue.
But as Republican-appointed justices to the Supreme Court prepare to cast aside a constitutional right that’s existed for the last half-century, and abortion bans prepare to take effect in much of the country, abortion has gone from a culture war conflict perpetually simmering on the backburner to a dominant political issue that’s likely to decide some important elections.
That said, there are caveats to keep in mind. Reproductive rights may have quickly made the transition from electoral afterthought to political dominance, but data like this tells us part of a story: Abortion is now the most important issue for a big chunk of the electorate, but not all of those voters are going to agree on the issue.
Regardless, those who insist that abortion rights will be irrelevant on Election Day are in for a surprise.
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