Kentucky governor: Andrew Beshear(D) has won re-election. Daniel Cameron couldn't win against Beshear in a solid red state. Cameron ran a mediocre campaign that solely focused on his Trump endorsement.
Republicans still managed to win all of the downballot offices: SOS, AG, Treasurer and Agriculture commissioner.
The sad truth is that we probably shouldn't run a Black man as the GOP candidate in a southern state like Kentucky.
Ohio: Dems have won yet another abortion referendum in a red state. GOP needs to stop fucking having these referendums. Clear that abortion is sadly popular nationwide. Abortion is clearly a losing issue for Republicans.
Virginia Legislature: The Dems have kept the State Senate denying Governor Youngkin and the Republicans a tri-fecta.
Pretty terrible night for Republicans all around.
Sorry boys. Ohio has fallen. Frustrating given the fact that this amendment is way more radical than the average voter. They did a stellar job of prettying it up and making it sound good with the wording.
Abortion is sadly popular nationwide amongst the electorate.
This is not an Ohio issue man.
The Dems have now won abortion referendums in Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and now Ohio.
I am pro-life and it is heartbreaking to admit that we have lost the battle on abortion for this generation.
Repealing Dobbs was a mistake. There are now going to be actually more late term abortions performed in any state that has a mechanism for triggering a referendum on abortion.
Dems can win a referendum on abortion in virtually any of the 50 states. That is the sick truth.
The current degenerate electorate of America supports abortions so our candidates need to accept reality and stop pushing on this issue.
GOP can win on the economy, immigration, gun rights and transgender ideology issue.
Abortion is clearly our worst issue.
I dont necessarily disagree with most of that, but at the same time I don't think, at least in Ohio, that the average voter supports a blank check for 9 month abortions. Just the shitty way it is worded makes a good chunk of people not realize that is what they are voting for.
For example, if the wording were changed to "the State cannot prevent one from getting an abortion at any point during a pregnancy up until birth" or something, I don't see that passing at all. It's the "only if their doctor signs off on it" that makes it so appealing to well-meaning normies, because they are too naive to realize that an abortionist can count as a doctor to give the green light.
Could be wrong though, I've been unpleasantly surprised before...
Regardless, it's kind of like the Biden vs Trump question. Regardless of whether the dirty politics and the weasel wording is the difference, the fact of the matter is anywhere from 40-60% of people who turnout to vote support anything from relatively unrestricted abortion to complete 9 month abortion no strings attached. Regardless of where that actual number falls the situation is still extremely dire, especially seeing as the numbers are likely worse among the younger generations.
Hard to see this remedying without a healing of moral values at a much more fundamental level. And it is hard to see that coming without a collapse of sorts. Tough situation.
The bottom line is people just don't care that much about other people's children, not enough to use the force of law to stop them from getting abortions. What do you expect in a liberal, individualist society? The GOP and conservatives don't actually challenge the foundational assumptions that lead to abortion being popular.
Canada literally has no abortion restrictions from an official legal perspective.
The left still constantly trots out "the conservatives has a secret agenda to take away your abortion rights" any time they have a political scandal or dip in the polls.
It's not really about abortion. The GOP is being systematically destroyed, and traitors within are doing the heavy lifting. They just extended voting in Niggertown Mississippi so they can steal the governorship. This is just another step in the path to one party rule. The Republican party won't exist in 2030 with the way things are going. Large parts of the country are occupied and so called "conservatives" are collaborating with enthusiasm that would make the Vichy regime blush.
They extended voting past today? How do they justify that?
Since when do those pedophiles have to justify anything they do? That shithole city deserves the Gaza treatment, but only after its water supply is poisoned.
Ohio has long been a heavily mixed state (rural farmers, urban blacks, union labor, etc.) though it has trended strongly red in recent years.
Abortion restrictions are just not a winning election issue for Republicans. End of story. Conservatives spent 50 years hyping up their base with getting rid of Roe v. Wade. They won. Now their base went home, satisfied, and the majority of people who are in favor of legal abortion are being hyped up by the dems.