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2023-11-08 -Great Cultural Revolution
Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia voters ok with abortion
[NYT] Ohio voters approved a ballot measure enshrining a right to abortion in the state’s Constitution on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, continuing a series of wins for abortion-rights groups who have appealed directly to the public as they try to recover from the United States Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
A mentality that sort of all goes hand-in-hand with the recent Hamas infant cooking episode. Perhaps we shouldn't discuss that. They were only babies you know.
Issue 1, as the ballot measure is known, had become the country’s most-watched race in the off-year elections. Both parties are looking to gauge whether voter anger over the loss of the federal right to abortion might help Democrats in next year’s presidential and congressional races. National groups on both sides of the debate poured money into Ohio in recent weeks.

The victory in a conservative state is likely to help lift the hopes of abortion-rights groups pushing similar measures next year in red and purple states, including Arizona, South Dakota, Missouri and Florida.

"It’s not up to the government to decide what we do with our bodies," said Alissa Carver, 26, who lives outside Cincinnati and describes herself as an independent voter. "It’s for us to decide, it’s our experience."

Wendy Pace, a 52-year-old independent, said she didn’t normally vote in off-year elections, but came out because she wanted to vote "yes" on Issue 1. "I have a teenage daughter and I don’t like having my rights taken away from me," she said. "I fear that this is just the beginning of rights being taken away, and I do fear for my daughter and what her rights would be going forward."

Gateway - BREAKING: Ohio Voters Approve Issue 1, Which Legalizes Killing Babies in Abortion Up Until Birth

CNN - Ohio legalize recreational use of marijuana ballot measure

AP - Democrats prevail in Kentucky and Virginia. Ohio protects abortion rights
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-08 00:01|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 This country has crossed the rubicon.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-08 00:13||   2023-11-08 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by badanov 2023-11-08 00:19||   2023-11-08 00:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I was so frustrated with our local branch of the Republican party. Usually their website has a sample ballot and slate recommendation easily findable, but this election they only had on there information about the two state initiatives (abortion and marijuana). I ended up calling the group’s secretary at home to find that information — discovering she’d had cataract surgery only hours before — in order to find out who was running as a Republican. For some reason the group had decided not recommend any of the candidates, and therefore did no outreach — all we got was a few mailers about the state issues from the Ohio Republicans. And Butler County is majority-Republican!

The Butler County Democratic Party had a full slate on their site.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-08 03:40||   2023-11-08 03:40|| Front Page Top

#4 But at any rate, this is an off year here, with no important races, so it was only people who really care about pot and abortion who turned out.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-08 03:42||   2023-11-08 03:42|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Given the results from KY, I'd say what you witnessed is the how the GOP will phone it in heading into 2024.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-08 05:33||   2023-11-08 05:33|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ 'Phone it in.'

Also called 'laying out' in the South. I hope you are wrong Rex, but I fear you are not.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-08 05:43||   2023-11-08 05:43|| Front Page Top

#7 It appears that we have a corrupt electorate to go along with corrupted elections.
Posted by Elmaper McGurque1612 2023-11-08 07:39||   2023-11-08 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't blame the voters. Where is the RNC? Where is McConnell? Given the current Dem disaster, they should have been flooding media for months. But no, they're too concerned with Orange Man Bad. Better to serve in Hell I guess - that's been GOP for decades.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-08 08:43||   2023-11-08 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9 IMO kosher and Halal have it right. life is in the blood. if the heart is beating its murder otherwise
its like squeezing a pimple.
Posted by irish rage boy 2023-11-08 09:58||   2023-11-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Why this obsession with killing babies?

And what "rights," aside from the "right" to kill a baby, are people like Wendy Page afraid of losing?
Posted by Tom 2023-11-08 10:39||   2023-11-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#11 It's the right to kill people - period. One should notice the side which celebrates the killing of children around the world are currently defending the "right" of Hamas to continue killing Jews. Jews, babies, conservatives - they've a long list as demonstrated by a certain manifesto that was recently leaked.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-08 10:59||   2023-11-08 10:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes. Anyone who doesn't get that the Left is the Dark Side doesn't get very much at all.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-08 11:01||   2023-11-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#13 It's is not about killing babies, it's about women (or any othe "victim" group) not having to face consequences - no matter how irresponsibly they behave.

Incedentally, it's the same about Gaza: "what Hamas did is terrible, and we condemn it, but ..."
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-08 11:27||   2023-11-08 11:27|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ 20th Century thinking - we're way past that now.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-08 11:33||   2023-11-08 11:33|| Front Page Top

#15 We will need a personhood amendment to US Constitution to protect life from conception to natural death; it'd stop abortion and euthanasia too.
Posted by Whavilet Ghibelline3141 2023-11-08 12:38||   2023-11-08 12:38|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ And drive leftists totally batshit crazy in the bargain. Ever wonder why all these advocates for death don't just off themselves if it's the answer to so many problems (or so they claim)?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-08 12:43||   2023-11-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#17 If Republicans want to lose elections... iirc single moms vote about ~80% for Democrats. Abortion is the way.
Posted by mossomo 2023-11-08 13:38||   2023-11-08 13:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Yeah, I guess if a person is a "single mom" who is afraid of having to raise her own no husband daughter's child or children later on, that would constitute "skin in the game."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-08 14:06||   2023-11-08 14:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Pennsylvania is having machine problems
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-11-08 14:31||   2023-11-08 14:31|| Front Page Top

#20 I worked the polls in a location where two NE Ohio precincts vote. The turnout was heavy. I saw many street names that I did not recognize as being in the precinct and many voters I did not recognize either. I have been assigned to this voting location consistently for two years so I recognize faces.
The Dems flooded the local sportscasts with propaganda about the purpose of the Amendment. They ran a pot initiative on the same ballot to notice more Dem voters to the polls. It was a good strategy well executed. While many Republicans care about the abortion issue, few in leadership truly care although they make sympathetic noises for pandering purposes. That is the reason for the lack of strategy and execution on the Pro-Life side. It was the Knights of Columbus versus the consensus of evil including big tech. The Pro-Life movement got bum rushed. The GOP spectated.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-08 15:38||   2023-11-08 15:38|| Front Page Top

#21 My great concern is that on Judgement Day, saying "Well, I was opposed to it (abortion)" ain't gonna cut it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-08 15:49||   2023-11-08 15:49|| Front Page Top

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