"Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I've Never Seen Anything Like It"

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“In my 28 years analyzing elections, I’ve never seen anything like what’s happened in the past two months in American politics: Women are registering to vote in numbers I’ve never witnessed.”

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nytimes.com
Opinion | Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women have registered to vote in incredible numbers.
6:44 AM · Sep 4, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/opinion/women-voters-roe-abortion-midterms.html

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https://archive.ph/vuNI4

I’ve watched Americans in recent years acclimate to some very grim realities. Especially since the ascension of Donald Trump, numerous tragedies and extreme policies have been met with little political consequence: schools targeted by mass murderers, immigrants treated as subhuman and autocratic regimes around the globe affirmed as allies. While Mr. Trump did fail in his re-election bid, a swing of just over 20,000 votes in the three states with the narrowest margins would have produced a win for him, and Democrats hold razor-thin majorities in the House and the Senate.

In the weeks following the leak of a draft ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which all but guaranteed the end of abortion protections under Roe v. Wade, it initially seemed this pattern would hold. About three weeks after the leak, a CNN analyst claimed that “the Republican wave is building fast” heading into the midterm elections. In late May, the highly respected election analysts at the Cook Political Report increased their estimate of how many House seats the G.O.P. would gain. The discussion was not focused on whether the November general election would be a “red wave” but rather just how big of a wave it would be.

But once the actual Dobbs decision came down, everything changed. For many Americans, confronting the loss of abortion rights was different from anticipating it. In my 28 years analyzing elections, I’ve never seen anything like what’s happened in the past two months in American politics: Women are registering to vote in numbers I’ve never witnessed. I’ve run out of superlatives to describe how different this moment is, especially in light of the cycles of tragedy and eventual resignation of recent years. This is a moment to throw old political assumptions out the window and to consider that Democrats could buck historic trends this cycle.

One of the first big signs that things had changed came from Kansas. After voters there defeated a constitutional amendment that would have removed abortion protections in the state in a landslide, I sought to understand how activists could have accomplished such an astounding upset. While it takes several weeks for state election officials to produce full reports on who voted in any given election, there was an immediate clue. I looked at new voter registrants in the state since the June 24 Dobbs decision. As shocking as the election result was to me, what I found was more striking than any single election statistic I can recall discovering throughout my career. Sixty-nine percent of those new registrants were women. In the six months before Dobbs, women outnumbered men by a three-point margin among new voter registrations. After Dobbs, that gender gap skyrocketed to 40 points. Women were engaged politically in a way that lacked any known precedent.


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[intrepidity]

1. Almost as though their lives depend upon it? nt

[crickets]

4. Without a doubt. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This goes along with the article about the cons interfering at local election offices

overwhelming them with requests for records to stop voting and elections.

Cons are violent terrorists, remember that folks.

[Lovie777]

3. Republicans are treating women like a piece of trash .....

Republicans are trying to do the same to seniors. Student loans be damn. SSI, Medicare/Medicaid is on the Republicans cutting block as well as middle and poor class will have to pay more taxes to cover for the "rich" tax cuts.

Republicans are marching towards fascism with corporate Media's help.

Yes vote, vote for the soul of America.

[Tommymac]

11. Same as it ever was.

Been this way since at least Raygun in the 1980's.

But I'll let David Byrne tell it.

[AKwannabe]

15. Right on

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote, up and down the ballot!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

[Phoenix61]

7. +1,000! nt

[Tommymac]

12. I love this meme.

[Sky Jewels]

6. Gosh, this can't be right. White Male Rich Lowry assured us that Dobbs wouldn't change anything.

It’s simply not possible to turn a national election on the basis of an issue that matters to such a relatively small proportion of people.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/14/roe-dobbs-wont-save-democrats-00045978

[localroger]

9. Yeah, it only matters to half the population

Actually considering that some men such as myself also care about it, maybe three-quarters. But not everybody, amirite?

[Sky Jewels]

14. Not the people who really matter, that's for sure!

[EnergizedLib]

8. And no, MAGAts

You can’t overturn the 19th Amendment.

You will pay the price at the polls.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[lark]

13. Women are being targeted for murder by repugs.

Plus a number of states already give rapists parental rights so they get a benefit from their crime and destruction of a female person - so terribly heinous. Now a women can be killed for miscarrying when 1/3 of all conceptions end within 60 days due to being unviable. Women can be killed at 10 for being raped and then forced to give birth when her body isn't able and she will either die or be unable to have anymore children. Indiana is incensed that their doctor saved the child's life and are suing the female physician.