With Roe Vote 2022 Is Now a Choice Election
The 2022 Election Begins Today – If you’ve been part of the NDN community, you know it’s our view that current global and domestic trends will make GOP success this year far less likely than conventional wisdom holds right now.
Simply, since the rise of Trump/MAGA and its allies in Europe, Western countries including the US have been steadily putting center-left governments in power and defeating far right parties. The threat of this new politics has been widely understood by the voters of the West, and today the far right is much further from power than it has been in years. In the US for example the Democratic margin in the three elections since Trump took over the GOP has averaged 5 points. In the last two elections the Dem margin averaged 6 points in historically high turnout elections. More people have voted against MAGA in the US than any other political movement in our history.
For Republicans to take control of either chamber in Congress this fall it would mean that an awful lot of people who voted against a radicalized right would have to stay home or switch over to the Republican side. We think either of those scenarios is far less likely now, as overturning Roe may be the single most unpopular and out of the mainstream position this modern right holds today. The polling on this issue is eyepopping. Overturning Roe is opposed 69%-30% in a new CNN poll. In a new Washington Post poll only 28% want to overturn Roe (28%!!!!!). In a new Navigator poll 72% of pro-choice voters (almost 60% of the electorate) say they will be more likely to vote if Roe is overturned.
The problem for Republicans is that confirmation of their extremism on any single issue opens the door for Democrats to expand the conversation with voters about the out of the main stream positions the GOP holds on many other issues – climate, health care, book banning, denigration of our democracy, support of Putin and authoritarianism, attacks on Disney, raising taxes on working people while cutting taxes on the wealthy, etc – and remind voters that this is the kind of politics rejected by record numbers in the last 2 elections. It can wake up the clear anti-MAGA majority, once again get them off their couches and get them go out there and fight, and vote.
2022 is now a “choice” election, between a party which has repeatedly made things better for the country and one that wants to tear it all down. As we’ve been saying it is why when it comes to the 2022 elections we would rather be us than them. But it is time now for Dems to turn their campaigns on, get loud, start spending and engage their opponents. It is time now.
"It's extreme, like most MAGA things are." Joe Biden, 5/4/22 (link)
