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Republicans misjudged the power of abortion rights
Along with weak candidates and the lack of an economic plan, fears of a post-Roe rollback in reproductive rights were also behind the party’s underwhelming election result.
Sarah Green CarmichaelAfter the expected red wave seems to have been little more than a red ripple, are any centrist pundits going to renew their calls for a federal compromise on abortion? Before the election, I saw essay after essay pre-emptively lambasting Democrats for being too focused on this supposedly fringe women’s issue. Surely, talking so much about wombs would lead them down the primrose path to electoral defeat.
That didn’t pan out.
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