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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 8

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Barro

    If this is true, then the GOP should suffer severe electoral penalties for its extreme positions on abortion (repeal Roe, no exceptions for rape/incest, bounty hunter laws). Worth inquiring why they usually don't.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1512470446918279173 …

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    Josh BarroVerified account @jbarro
    since a lot of people intentionally avoid understanding this: the median voter has a conflicted view on abortion. wants it to be legal, is vaguely disapproving, favors certain restrictions. favors significant restrictions or bans later in pregnancy, opposes federal funding.
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      2. Matt Hanson‏ @MattHansonAF Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It might be because the people who are really intensely pro-life will openly be single issue voters and thus vote early and often, outnumbering the median voter who has a more nuanced view.

        2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
      3. icosagon strategy‏ @WorstPlace Apr 8
        Replying to @MattHansonAF @HeerJeet

        So the extreme voters will outnumber the median voters? I don't think that's how averages work

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Michael Slavitch  🇨🇦 🇺🇦‏ @SlavitchMichael Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Jeet, people want revolution over the price of gas.

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      1. JZ‏ @jezebrowski Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Yeats said it perfectly: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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      1. blobbin up that road‏ @known_blob Apr 8
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        no no, the sword of popularism only cuts one way

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      2. Graeme Edgeler‏ @GraemeEdgeler Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        1) We need to draw a distinction between the median national voter and the median eg Oklahoma voter as we mostly have state bans not federal. 2) Median voter may also view the usually stated Democratic position (available up until birth, etc.) as almost as extreme?

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      3. TimS‏ @TimSEsq Apr 8
        Replying to @GraemeEdgeler

        Which is bizarre for the public to think, since essentially every third-trimester abortion is a medical tragedy preventing a desired baby.

        0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. The Freewheel Jim Teal‏ @therealjimteal Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Because they were mostly bluffing until now

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      3. Rando‏ @TimRandosaurus Apr 8
        Replying to @therealjimteal @HeerJeet

        Seems a might foolish how people hung so much on ‘mostly’.

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      2. Iowa Nighthawk Bot‏ @Iowa_Nighthawk Apr 8
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The progressive activist position (legal abortion anytime during the pregnancy, no questions asked, paid for Medicaid if mother indigent) is roughly equidistant from the median voter. Also, the most extreme GOP positions were just theoretical in minds of voters until recently.

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      3. Just another pretty face‏ @infinite_loopy Apr 8
        Replying to @Iowa_Nighthawk @HeerJeet

        Regardless of whether that is or is not the actual progressive activist position: The "moderate" Democratic position is to say they're supportive of abortion rights, while not actually fighting to preserve them.

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