Polling off the Deep End

The anti-choice folks have come up with an amazing new strategy to win over the Democratic party. Having failed to change national polling numbers over the past quarter century on the abortion issue by their religious/moral arguments, they are now appealing to the self interest of the Democratic party: in short, their argument is that the Democrats are aborting themselves out of existence.
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We Can’t Rely on the Senate Democrats to Save Roe

Many voters who believe in abortion rights plan to vote for President Bush in November. They have a variety of reasons, but lurking not far beneath the surface is the belief that the President won’t appoint a Justice to the Supreme Court who will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, or, if he did, the Senate Democrats would not permit it and would filibuster the nomination as they have done for several of Bush’s more radical appointees–Judge Pickering being one example.
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