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After Alabama, abortion may be backseat issue in 2018 races
Associated Press ^ | Dec 16, 2017 11:57 AM EST | Bill Barrow

Posted on 12/17/2017 10:17:41 AM PST by Olog-hai

Alabama, one of the most conservative states in the country, with one of the most evangelical electorates, is sending an abortion-rights supporter to the U.S. Senate, despite GOP efforts to paint Democrat Doug Jones as an unacceptable extremist on the issue.

Certainly, any analysis of what Jones’ upset over Roy Moore means for other races involves a caveat: The Republican nominee was twice ousted from the state Supreme Court and stood accused of sexual misconduct with minors, baggage that gave Jones an opening in a state that hadn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1992.

Yet Jones could not have won without crossover votes from conservative Republicans who oppose abortion, and that’s just what he did.

Exit polls show Jones won a third of voters who said abortion should be illegal in most cases, and 27 percent of those who want it outlawed completely.

These numbers suggest that abortion may not necessarily be a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: abortion; alabama; babykillers; douchejones; dougjones; fakenews; fakepolls; gopestablishment; jones; mcconnell; moore; plannedbutcherhood; plannedparenthood; rinos; roymoore; ryno

1 posted on 12/17/2017 10:17:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Poor choice of wording in THAT headline.


2 posted on 12/17/2017 10:21:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

Now it’s about how everyone agrees with them on issues, as if they ran an issue based fair and square campaign. Don’t you just love liberals?


3 posted on 12/17/2017 10:22:19 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Olog-hai
Don't you believe that headline and its implications for the future. Creator-endowed life and liberty of each individual citizen is too important an idea to be conceded to the cultish Progressives who wish to "fundamentally change" the very foundation idea of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America.
4 posted on 12/17/2017 10:25:48 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Olog-hai

Jones had no chance of beating anyone without the help of the Republican establishment.


5 posted on 12/17/2017 10:26:05 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Olog-hai
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
6 posted on 12/17/2017 10:28:35 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Paladin2

Take one state, with an election which has absolutely no meaning regarding the abortion issue, except that people who are anti-abortions chose “the lesser of two evils”, and then go and extrapolate that into meaning that the whole country will not care about the abortion issue in the next round of elections.

The AP keeps making things up, but, they know that the low-information voters might take it for granted that the voters in Alabama and the rest of the country will no longer care about the abortion issue.

The AP could not be “more wronger”.


7 posted on 12/17/2017 10:30:41 AM PST by adorno
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To: Kazan

Jones had no chance of beating anyone without
the help of the Republican establishment.

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Jones don’t have to worry about winning until 2020.


8 posted on 12/17/2017 10:41:35 AM PST by deport
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To: Olog-hai

Nonsense. The only conclusion to be drawn from the election is the Dems cheated, again, as usual.


9 posted on 12/17/2017 10:58:35 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Kazan

And millions in out of state dollars.


10 posted on 12/17/2017 11:21:39 AM PST by ex91B10
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Olog-hai. More reason for breaking AP under Sherman Anti-Trust. Partisan Media Shill ping.

11 posted on 12/17/2017 11:29:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Olog-hai

The fact that many Republicans stayed home because they weren’t comfortable sending Creepy Roy to the Senate has nothing to do with their views on abortion.


12 posted on 12/17/2017 11:56:43 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Olog-hai

...an abortion-rights supporter to the U.S. Senate, despite GOP efforts to paint Democrat Doug Jones as an unacceptable extremist on the issue.


Because in the AP’s universe, full-term abortions are *not* extremist.


13 posted on 12/17/2017 12:01:37 PM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a corrupt partisan organization.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve said for years that people in the USA who are “anti-abortion” lack commitment. They are “pro-life” on paper, but when political reality hits, they are inclined to move to the left and not think twice about doing so.


14 posted on 12/17/2017 12:08:51 PM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017. The golden opportunity is slipping away.)
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To: Olog-hai

These media act as if there was not 24/7 smearing of Moore as a child molester.

As if Jones eked out a win due to his political positions.

.


15 posted on 12/17/2017 12:14:06 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

As long as liberals think that, all is well.


16 posted on 12/17/2017 12:22:21 PM PST by \/\/ayne (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- .-.. ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .)
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To: Theodore R.

The Uniparty’s RINO wing is pro-abortion and with each year that passes, they become more open about it.


17 posted on 12/17/2017 3:26:42 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Abortion will never become back tier issue ...


18 posted on 12/17/2017 5:24:29 PM PST by victim soul (victim soul)
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