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Pro Life / Pro Choice Debate

That's a Herschel Walker-level dumb thing to say on the campaign trail.
 
Why is Yahoo News posting an article based on an RNC tweet?
 


In fact, a candidate's pro-choice position was the most important issue tested among rural voters polled in 10 battleground states, even outpacing party ID (i.e., being a Republican), which came in second. The survey asked respondents to choose between pairs of randomly generated candidates with different attributes including their party identification, race, sex, attitudes on abortion, attitudes on energy investments, attitudes on tax policy, whether they have been endorsed by the Farm Bureau, and their position on the Farm Bill.
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Another key finding of the survey was the fact that for a Democratic candidate, an endorsement from a pro-choice organization boosted a candidate's appeal more than an endorsement from the Farm Bureau or a labor organization.


A Democrat hypothetically endorsed by the AFL-CIO lost 1 point of support (36% to 35%) while a Farm Bureau endorsement boosted a Democrat's support by 7 points (34% to 41%). But an endorsement from Planned Parenthood gave a Democratic candidate a 9-point bump, from 35% to 44%.


In the Florida and Georgia subsample, the boost a Democratic candidate got from an abortion rights group endorsement was even more pronounced. While a Farm Bureau endorsement resulted in a 5-point bump (28% to 33%), a Planned Parenthood endorsement yielded an 18-point boost (24% to 42%).
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Link to a slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentatio...k2C8_2x6zbJaq4/edit#slide=id.g158196323f2_0_1
 
IamThunderbolt said:
For those of you that are in Guilford Co....

Recently in Greensboro, an antiabortion protester from Triad Coalition for Life and Sidewalk Advocates for Life intentionally drove his car into clinic escorts, hitting one of the clinic volunteer escorts. Police were called out but chose not to file any charges, leaving the escort to take legal action on her own. Charges have been filed but the protester has only been charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon; he has not been charged for anything related to violating the Federal FACE act or a North Carolina General Statute that protects access to healthcare clinics (General Statute 14-277.4).

The Guilford County District Attorney, Avery Crump, is in charge of this case. We need the DA to consider all of the details of this case and consider charges related to the violation of NC General Statute 14-277.4. In addition to the Assault with a Deadly Weapon charge, the DA should consider not just banning him from the clinic property but within 100 feet of the edge of the property, as he ran his car into patient escorts who were standing just off-property to guide cars to the clinic. She also should consider that Triad Coalition for Life and Sidewalk Advocates for Life, organizations that train and coordinate the protesters, may bear some responsibility for the environment they’ve created outside of the clinic and for the behavior of their own volunteers.

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Follow up from this since the case was tried last Friday:

Pretrial article

Post Trial
 
Dude, you kind of left out some major details in that post. Glad that guy was punished for something even if it was a lesser charge.
 
WakeForestRanger said:
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Shades of our esteemed NC Lt. Governor, Mark Robinson. Another anti-abortion "absolutist" who turns out to have paid for one. In no way it is a surprise at this point, but it's still worth noting just how many Evangelical, Religious Right folks continue to vote for people because they loudly claim to support "traditional family values" when in fact they are virtually the opposite of those values in their personal life. Just another example of religious fundamentalists preferring the appearance of virtue instead of the reality.
 
And I’m sure as with Robinson, Republicans will say it’s a private matter that shouldn’t be politicized and Democrats will say “Yeah. No shit.”
 
Republicans say they'll sue but the won't. They just want their supporters to think they've sued.
 
PhDeac said:
Republicans say they'll sue but the won't. They just want their supporters to think they've sued.
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Even if this story turns out not to be true (no reason at this point to believe it isn't) there would still be all of the other things he's been caught lying about. At this point he's got the credibility of a used-car salesman.
 
It’s easy to call it a media smear and I’m sure he’ll be on Hannity to get spoonfed questions about it.
 
It's crazy that a politician paying for a perfectly legal medical procedure is such a big deal.
 
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