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.
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.