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.
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So the extreme voters will outnumber the median voters? I don't think that's how averages work
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Jeet, people want revolution over the price of gas.
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Yeats said it perfectly: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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no no, the sword of popularism only cuts one way
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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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Which is bizarre for the public to think, since essentially every third-trimester abortion is a medical tragedy preventing a desired baby.
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Because they were mostly bluffing until now
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Seems a might foolish how people hung so much on ‘mostly’.
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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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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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